Quotes about nothing

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“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”

“There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”

“Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.”

“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”

“Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.”

“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”

“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”

“Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.”

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”

“Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting. Constant and ever-changing. It was summer.”

“She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.”

“For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.”

“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?'
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.”

“You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.”

“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”

“Nothing happens by chance.”

“Nothing good ever came easy.” (Garreth)”

“It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.”

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”

“Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

“His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.”

“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.”

“You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue.”

“Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing. we have power. but we will never know it, we will never see it work. unless we come together to make it work.”

“Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.”

“I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.”

“… nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”

“A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.”

“There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.”

“I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write”

“Nothing is fun until you're good at it.”

“It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.”

“What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.”

“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”

“Nothing wrong with shooting… as long as the right people get shot.”

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”

“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.”

“My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.”

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

“Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.”

“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

“He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.”

“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”

“Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.”

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”

“They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.”

“Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open."

Have you been watching Oprah again?”

“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”

“When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

“A man may be so much of every thing, that he is nothing of any thing.”

“Belief means nothing without actions”

“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, "Aww. They've just been told.”

“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”

“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”

“The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,
the greater peace.”

“When we're all alone, it might be to frightening to bear… but we're all right beside each other. We've got our friends close by! Now, there's nothing to fear! Because we're not alone!!!”

“There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.”

“There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.”

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”

“You mean to say he became mad deliberately?'
… Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.”

“Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.”

“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”

“But our wounds are part of who we are… and there is nothing left to chance…. And pain's the pen that writes the songs…. That call us forth to dance”

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise”

“For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself”

“I’ve got your back. Nothing alive will ever hurt you if I have breath in me. And nothing dead will hurt you if I don’t.” (Kisten)”

“Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.”

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”

“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”

“I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”

“One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.”

“The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.”

“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”

“Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.”

“Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.”

“It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you’re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.”

“There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.”

“Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.”

“You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of."
Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake."
"Sure you do."
"I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those."
"Yeah? Prove it.”

“If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist”

“There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.”

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.”

“Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.”

“Everyone loves something for nothing… even if it costs everything.”

“The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.”

“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”

“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”

“If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.”

“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”