Quotes about nothing

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“And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?”

“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.”

“He should accept me as I am!” says the woman who is too nice.
Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you
madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a
doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.”

“They spent their time doing nothing… they let intimacy fuse them.”

“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too… Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”

“Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.”

“Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”

“This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out.
First you will smile, and then you will cry - don't say you haven't been warned.”

“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.

(from the novella,)”

“Ah, nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.”

“[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go…. Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)”

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy”

“A brain with no heart and no reasoning… well, nothing is more meaningless.”

“Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when

the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self

lay lightly down, and slept.”

“it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom
seen
or that we are too senseless to go
insane.

coffee. give us more of that NOTHING
coffee.”

“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

“Roza." his voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent… it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't hesitate."
I just barely saw his fist striking out toward my head… and then I saw nothing at all.”

“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”

“If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.”

“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”

“Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.”

“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”

“Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.”

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive. If only the dead could talk, eh, Lucian?”

“When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.”

“We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.”

“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”

“You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.”

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”

“Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.”

“Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him.

Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.”

“I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway)
I don’t want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)”

“Better than nothing is not good enough for you!”

“Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.”

“If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”

“If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.”

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.”

“I can connect
Nothing with nothing”

“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

“If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I
was nothing until you.”

“Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.”

“When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.”

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”

“Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.”

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

“Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.”

“Conclusion 2:
There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins.
~Signed Tamaki”

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”

“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”

“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

“Ever, if I’ve learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it’s that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.”

“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”

“Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”

“One guy wore nothing but a Speedo. He’d painted himself blue and was armed only with a baseball bat. Across his chest were the words COME AT ME, BRO.”

“What you're blaming yourself for is being who you are. And that's no one's fault and nothing you can change.”

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

“Built to be lonely
to love the absent.
Find me
Free me
from this
corrosive doubt
futile despair
horror in repose.
I can fill my space
fill my time
but nothing can fill this void in my heart.”

“Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.”

“… a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.”

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”

“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”

“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”

“Life and summer are fleeting,’ sang the bird. ‘Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.”

“… nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should.”

“She's… just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.”

“I am nothing, and not even that.”

“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”

“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”

“There's nothing wrong with you.. not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter”

“Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.”

“Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.”

“As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing--not art, not sex--more than going to the movies.”

“Prolong not the past
Invite not the future
Do not alter your innate wakefulness
Fear not appearances
There in nothing more than this”

“It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.”

“There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?”

“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”

“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”

“… there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson”

“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”

“Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

“He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing”

“There is really nothing more to say — except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

“To be raped is to be sexually violated. For society to force someone, through shame and ostracism, to comply with love and sex that it defines, is nothing but organized rape. That is what homophobia is all about. Organized rape.”

“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

“There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.”

“Because the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world.”

“It's nothing that complicated, I just want to kill him”

“sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.”