Quotes about nothing

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“The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.”

“Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.”

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”

“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”

“So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.”

“Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.”

“I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

“Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went”

“Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”

“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”

“If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.”

“I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing”

“I really worry about these political people that have no personal life. If there's nothing that's lovely, and if there's nothing that's just ephemeral, that you can just lie on the floor and bust a gut laughing at, then what's the point?”

“Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open.
"Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.”

“I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.”

“Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.”

“there is nothing to be done.

only accept it…

and hurt.”

“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

“I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing.”

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”

“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”

“Take her home. And-"
"Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.”

“In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence”

“Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.”

“I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around
purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.”

“nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

“There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.”

“Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.”

“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.”

“But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.

Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.”

“Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.”

“You know, a cell phone's like a guy; if you don't plug him in every night, charge him good, you got nothing at all.”

“I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.”

“… and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”

“Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.”

“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.”

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”

“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…”

“There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.”

“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”

“Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard”

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”

“I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”

“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”

“You see… it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?”

“Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.”

“There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”

“This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.”

“I said nothing. I’m good at saying nothing. I don’t like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.”

“There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.”

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

“Nico and Hazel exchanged looks. They both knew better, but they said nothing.”

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”

“No. Haven’t you been listening?”

Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.”

“And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles”

“because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

“But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.”

“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”

“You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.”

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”

“What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.”

“You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.”

“It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.”

“Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning…”

“The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination — what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.”

“There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.”

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

“In the real world
as in dreams
nothing is quite
what it seems.
-The Book of Counted Sorrows”

“Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”

“Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days
and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible
and nothing can change that; neither new
girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or
God.”

“… I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.”

“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”

“The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.”

“If you think I’m handsome, there’s obviously nothing wrong with your vision.”

“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”

“You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”

“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

“You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel”

“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”

“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing…. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”

“If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?… Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.”

“Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.”

“It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”

“There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.”

“Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”