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Quotes About Nothing

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
~ Kay Ryan
My mother told me a million times that Ireland and the Irish people were special, and that the O'Cadhain family in particular was the most blessed of all because it had been imposed upon without cease since the dawn it sprung up in Galway. For centuries they had been in training to have nothing, so everything was more or less working perfectly according to God's plan.
~ Kaye Gibbons
There is no prayer so blessed as the prayer which asks for nothing.
~ O. J. Simpson
The void and the unspeakable loneliness, the stillness and the silence and the darkness that awaited beneath the sod: no, no movement; no breathing; nothing. Too much … too much.
~ William Peter Blatty
He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all.
~ William Sansom
Nothing will come of nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?
~ William Shakespeare
When you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that.
~ William Shakespeare
Must I not serve a long apprenticehoodTo foreign passages, and in the end,Having my freedom, boast of nothing elseBut that I was a journeyman to grief?
~ William Shakespeare
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone had to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was impossible to express it as a figure. So someone had to overcome this reasonable assumption, someone has to figure out how to express nothing as a number. This unknown man from India made nonexistence exist. Extraordinary, don't you think?
~ Y?ko Ogawa
So who was it? Who discovered zero?" "An Indian mathematician; we don't know his name. The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Since I didn't have a contract I could show him to make him stay, if Tenzo suddenly vanished I would be left with nothing. Tenzo had given me no words, not "lover," or even "relationship.
~ Y?ko Tawada
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.
~ David Morrell
Wearing your red scarves, your Liverpool scarves. To support Liverpool Football Club. So I thank you, boys. I thank you. For supporting Liverpool Football Club. Because we could do nothing without you, boys – We would be nothing without you.
~ David Peace
Back at the house, first things first. Phone the office. Nothing. No news being bad news for the Kemplays and Clare, good news for me.
~ David Peace
He decimated many Democratic arguments but replaced them with virtually nothing. To expose Franklin Pierce's "ludicrous and laughable" record as a brigadier general in the Mexican War
~ David S. Reynolds
In the end, it was a lot of nothing about nothing, thank God—or whoever it was capriciously doling out miracles while also creating the circumstances under which such were prayed for. Lucy wondered if maybe she should convert to Norse mythology or something, one of the ones with trickster gods, like Loki. The available evidence seemed to vindicate that kind of god, as opposed to the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving creator of space-time she'd been raised to believe in.
~ David Sosnowski
My resume is worthless—it turns out that managing a now-defunct video store in your twenties while solving monster crimes qualifies you for absolutely nothing else.
~ David Wong
I said before that my skin was "on fire" with the pain but being confronted so soon after that sentiment with the actual experience, I admit that other thing was nothing like my skin actually being on fire.
~ David Wong
Of course, it is likely enough, my friends, that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.
~ David Wong
The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.
~ DeWayne Owens
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
~ Lana Del Rey