Quotes About Nothing

It's true what they say: Nothing tastes quite like the East River.

It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes.

Slater used to be a poet, he's nothing now, and he sort of looks on Robby and me with awe because we aren't nothing yet, we haven't given up yet, awed at me because I'm thirty-one and haven't given up yet, and at Robby because he's young and has potential. Most people stop wanting to be a writer around the age of sixteen.

For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for Wales!

Rest well. And eat well tonight. In the morning, eat nothing. It is not good to dance the spears with a full stomach.

What he did know was that he was dangerous; he had nothing to offer any woman except pain.

it can be enormously stressful to construct a world in which nothing stressful ever occurs.

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as all being is but a flaw in the perfection of nonbeing. Which is God. For if God is perfection and the only perfection is in nonbeing, then God is nonbeing. Then God is nothing. Nothing can give no basis for the criticism of Thing in its thingness. Then where do you get anything to say? Then where do you get off?

For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

I could probably sit here in my office and do nothing, and the criminal would find his way to me. That's how strong the probabilities are in my favor.

it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

And I have such a cold in the head—I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you?

Maybe, Gus said. We've had a lot of practice, going on expeditions for nothing. That's how it mostly turned out. You ride awhile in one direction and then you turn around and ride back.

Maybe freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." She tilted her head. "Did you really just quote Janis Joplin?

The salt in my tears feels good when it stings my lips. I wash my face in the sink until there is nothing left of it, no eyes, no mouth. A slick nothing.

Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end.

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

Nothing...They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book...I found the book and inside were these flowers...They were in the book when I bought it... I bought it used...Because they meant something. 'To someone else.' 'To someone.

things from the interred past that poked up inconveniently into the present, halfway houses with their portals that went nowhere, that led only into a suggestive nothing.

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.