Quotes about nothing

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“Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”

“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.”

“I strive for nothing if not consistency”

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing…
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers
left from early fires,
… shall duly flame again”

“Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.”

“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”

“For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.”

“Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.”

“So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said.

Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing."

"Self-inflicted. You pathetic American."

"Different kind of prison" Chip said.”

“Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”

“So what really happened to you? (Astrid)
Nothing. (Zarek)
Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it’s capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)”

“Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.”

“If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.”

“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”

“Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.”

“Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions.
Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.”

“Well that's the problem with paradise- nothing attracts a serpent quite like it.”

“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

“Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.”

“Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.”

“You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.”

“Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you shall learn nothing.”

“You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.”

“There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.”

“Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”

“Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.”

“Can you keep a secret?”
“Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain’t nothing going to get out.”

“His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.”

“Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?”

“I've committed to nothing… and that's just suicide… by tiny, tiny increments.”

“Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.”

“Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.”

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?”

“Never argue. In society nothing must be discussed; give only results. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804–1881)”

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried… nothing is so warming and companionable.”

“Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.”

“My pain is constant and sharp… this confession has meant nothing”

“We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.”

“What's wrong?"
I didn't say a word."
Something's up. What is it?"
Nothing."
His head turned, gaze going to mine. "Yeah?"
Yes."
A snort and he returned to his bowl…”

“The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.”

“At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.”

“It’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.”

“Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.”

“having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.”

“Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.”

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”

“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”

“Nothing comes without a price.”

“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?”

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”

“I won’t lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who’s had you—you’d be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.”

“In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.”

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

“For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.”

“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts”

“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.”

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”

“the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)”

“So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart”

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”

“For a woman, there is nothing more erotic than being understood.”

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.”

“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”

“I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more.”

“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”

“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”

“It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.”

“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”

“Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.”

“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it… But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.”

“Thank you, Shay. (Syn)
For what? (Shahara)
For looking into the eyes of nothing and seeing a man you could love. (Syn)”

“It is leashed. Now drop the subject or I’ll tell Sin you’ve seen me naked. (Kat)
I will never bring this topic up again. Oh wait. What topic? I have Alzheimer’s. I know nothing at all. (Kish)”

“Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient”

“Nothing risque, nothing gained.”

“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.”

“There's nothing like a mission to save the world to liven up a vacation.”

“Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.”

“Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.”

“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.”

“America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's "winner take nothing" that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many— This is not prophecy, but description.”

“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”

“There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.”
Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.

“It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.”

“I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.”

“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about the nature of male and female roles can be solved by women's working harder.”

“Why me?' I ask God.
God says nothing.
I laugh and the stars watch.
It's good to be alive.”

“The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.”

“I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.”

“How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.”

“Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)”

“Without nothing, everything would be nothing.”