Quotes about nothing

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“Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.
-An-mei”

“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”

“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”

“Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much you could think of nothing else? [Wren]”

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

“Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.”

“Nothing is permanent but change.”

“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?”

“My doctrine is this, that if we see
cruelty or wrong that we have the
power to stop, and do nothing, we
make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”

“Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.”

“Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.”

“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.”

“I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.”

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more…”

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“Relax, Jailbait," said Avery. "A drunken kiss is nothing compared to a drunken fall. God knows I've kissed plenty of guys drunk."
"And yet, I remain unkissed tonight," mused Adrian.”

“You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.”

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced”

“It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.”

“I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”

“There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”

“Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.”

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

“Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows were all empty.
Nothing went in and nothing came out.”

“There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”

“My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.”

“Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.”

“Those who have nothing have only their discipline.”

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”

“The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.”

“Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.”

“… we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

“Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.”

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”

“Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”

“Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I did nothing for you.”
           
-You loved me and your love made me--human.”

“But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.”

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.”

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”

“… Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”

“These girls want nothing to do with last season's clothes.”

“Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”

“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“It was all a matter of control. And Choice.
Nothing more, nothing less”

“As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.”

“There's nothing better than cake but more cake.”

“She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy.”

“At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.”

“Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”

“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.”

“When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.”

“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”

“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”

“I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”

“To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

“He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.”

“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”

“There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.”

“Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times…
If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.”

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”

“Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself.”

“It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.”

“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”

“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,” said Grumman. “We have to learn everything we do.”

“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.”

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

“I lack nothing. I only needed myself.”

“When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.”

“They say we wizards are subtle. But believe you me, we've got nothing, nothing at all, on.”

“The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)”

“Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate”

“Relationship Principle 1
In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.”

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”

“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”

“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”

“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”

“A past may chase you if you try to escape from it… but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.”

“She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.”

“He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required”

“By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.”

“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”

“Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.”

“A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.”

“pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.”

“Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.”