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Quotes About Nothing

There are many fine details in which the court gets lost, but in the end it reaches into some place where originally there was nothing and pulls enormous guilt out of it.
~ Franz Kafka
Frank Williams says I'm nothing but a money-grabber. I can only laugh at that.
~ Ralf Schumacher
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
~ Felix Dennis
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.
~ Charles Morgan
Last I looked - and I'm not a candidate - but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It's most states are winners take all.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
~ Franz Wright
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
~ Jennifer Armentrout
It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all
~ Rona Jaffe
There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swallowed up the road two steps ahead of us, only a little sliver of road about the size of your tongue was spared by the darkness.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rated viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of the things Lissianna had learned through the centuries was that there was nothing more dangerous than a zealot.
~ Lynsay Sands
It's only music, though she said. Perhaps, Aschemann agreed. For the detective, he thought, nothing is ever only itself.
~ M. John Harrison
My living lords, there is nothing so immeasurable as the disdain of the dead.
~ Machado de Assis
It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
He's nothing but a deformed emanation of energy.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The lesson of the trickster tales is the third desirable difficulty: the unexpected freedom that comes from having nothing to lose. The trickster gets to break the rules.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Success is in the big things.Happiness is in the small things.Meditation is in Nothing.And, God is in everything
~ T.T. Rangarajan, Most and More
assemble and disperse, everything changes and is transformed, but no-o-othing can ever change from being to not-being. Not even the tiniest hair growing on the tail of some virus. The concept of infinity is indeed open, infinitely open, but at the same time it is also closed and hermetically sealed. Nothing leaves and nothing enters.
~ Amos Oz
But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. If you don't hurry up and get me out of here, I'm disappearing for good, it warned. And they you'll always be nothing.
~ Amy Tan
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have.
~ Andrew Hunt
The highest glory of the creature is in being a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be everything.
~ Andrew Murray
Blessed is the man who has made that "I have nothing" the motto of his ministry.
~ Andrew Murray
The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learned to say with Paul, I am nothing.
~ Andrew Murray