Quotes About Nothing

The gods are angry," muttered Nothing, frowning. "When aren't they?" said Yarvi.

Some Arab invented the idea of the number zero," I said. "Isn't that weird? Someone had to think zero up."   Because it isn't obvious—that nothing can be something. That something which can't be measured or seen could still exist and have meaning. Same with the soul, when you think about it.  

A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing.

diddly-squat out of you tonight.

Perhaps because I refuse to be less than the other part of your soul, my lord." "And nothing challenges a man as much as the voice of his own soul.

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

You ain't nothin' but a hound dog cryin' all the time.Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

In the infinite permutations of an ice crystal, everything repeats itself, but, really, from another point of view, nothing repeats itself. The arms go out, forming dendrites, sectored plates, the same angle every time, but the final product – because of wind, because of molecular vibration, because of rate of growth and temperature – is never the same.

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.

Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

I'm flattered that people want to hear me talk about nothing.

The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

It wasn't as if we were waiting for a train, it wasn't as if we were waiting for a meal - it was just that there were was nothing to wait for. Nothing.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

The first effect of realizing that one is made of nothing is a kind of panic-stricken insecurity. One looks round for some more stable thing to clutch, and in this matter none of the beings of our experience are any more stable than we, for at the origin of them all is the same truth: all are made of nothing.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.