Quotes about nothing

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“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.”

“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”

“A dog can never tell you what she knows from the
smells of the world, but you know, watching her,
that you know
almost nothing.”

“He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.”

“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.”

“The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.”

“Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us… Nothing just stops and stays… But it flows on… Like a river…”

“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth…”

“… talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

“Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.”

“The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”

“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”

“Nothing stands still, except in our memory.”

“The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”

“But nothing warps time quite like childhood”

“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”

“Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.”

“Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.”

“Nothing less than 7 inches.”

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”

“I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.”

“The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything”

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!”

“It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period”

“Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.”

“"There might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of."
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo."”

“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.”

“Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.”

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”

“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”

“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”

“Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly”

“After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.”

“…I've had a bad week."
What's happened?"
Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.”

“A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.”

“Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.”

“I Think it is lost….. but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost.
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”

“She was a nice little girl, simple and true, and tremendously frightened of sex. I told her it was beautiful. I wanted to prove this to her. She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing.”

“Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.”

“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”

“You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space.”

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you… Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

“I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except the thing that we hold in memory”

“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”

“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.”

“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.”

“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”

“… the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

“I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.”

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”

“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”

“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”

“We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait… No matter what… pressure… you might feel.”

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

“I'm not sure what I am anymore… Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures… That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.”

“i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing
and we owe each other the world”

“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”

“In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier.
We all grieve alone.”

“Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.”

“I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove… that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.”

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

“When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.”

“In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.”

“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”

“Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”

“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

“I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”

“God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world—but the fact those yearnings often come to nothing, well, I doubt that’s God’s doing.” She cut her eyes at me and smiled. “I think we know that’s men’s doing.”

“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”

“Only nothing is impossible.”

“There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more… secure.”

“Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.”

“Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus”

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”

“There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.”

“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”

“The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.”

“Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.”

“They had nothing in common but the English language.”

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get…”

“Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.”

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”

“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”

“How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.”

“Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.”

“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”

“What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.”