Quotes about nothing

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“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

“Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.”

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”

“I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing”

“but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.”

“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”

“Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.”

“I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”

“Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.”

“Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)”

“That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.”

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.”

“when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans”

“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

“At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever”

““Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.””

“Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time… and it's all good.”

“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!”

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will—we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can't win,” we moan. “They won't let us win.”However, if we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.Whatever direction we choose, if we can realize that every hurdle we jump strengthens and prepares us for the next one, we're already on the way to success.”

“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”

“Pardon me I've got nothing to say.”

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

“… they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.”

“You lose nothing when fighting for a cause… In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.”

“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”

“Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.”

“The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.”

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things…”

“But now," says the Once-ler, "now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with the average "reality" perceived by the communal eye.”

“Nothing is trivial.”

“There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.”

“Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.”

“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

“To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.”

“Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.”

“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”

“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.”

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

“All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.”

“They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”

“Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”

“I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.”

“Where there is nothing, there is God.”

“It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.”

“I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.”

“There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.”

“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”

“One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.”

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.”

“The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.”

“Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.”

“There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
About survival after death was known
To every human being: I alone
Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy
Of books and people hid the truth from me.”

“Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words].”

“How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.”

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”

“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.”

“There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.”

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”

“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant”

“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

“the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.”

“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready.”

“But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment."
I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib."
A what?"
Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.”

“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”

“There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should.”

“You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.”

“for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”

“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”

“Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”

“She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.”

“He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.”

“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”

“There is nothing more ancient than the truth.”

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye”

“Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.”

“Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?”