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Quotes About Nothing

True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and cast away self, to let God be all.
~ Andrew Murray
The blessing is often superficial or transitory, just because they are not the nothing that opens the way for God to be all.
~ Andrew Murray
Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I could have told her that if something is disappointing I know it's not nothing because nothing is not disappointing.
~ Andy Warhol
i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world
~ Ani DiFranco
It would seem that losing the sadness would be a good thing, but it has been replaced by nothing -a quiet acceptance of this boring, everyday life. I think it's even worse than being miserable. At least being miserable is active.
~ Samantha Schutz
I'm waiting to hear the engine spring to life. But nothing happens. Of course. The bloody battery is dead. I
~ Sara Foster
You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
~ Sarah Dessen
The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direction. Refusing once is good, twice is usually okay but a third is risky. You never know when the third person will stop playing and you end up with nothing.
~ Sarah Dessen
A sky still fits the ignition. There just isn't anything left to drive.
~ Sarah Kay
Though impervious to the sacred, I loved magic. The cinema was a suspect appearance that I loved perversely for what it still lacked. That streaming was everything, it was nothing, it was everything reduced to nothing.
~ Sartre Jean Paul
Still, here goes! Whatever may befall, My hope is in your Nothing to find All.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All publicity works upon anxiety. The sum of everything is money, to get money is to overcome anxiety. Alternatively the anxiety on which publicity plays is the fear that having nothing you will be nothing.
~ John Berger
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
~ John Cage
God has not rendered you due punishment, but bestows upon you unmerited grace. If you wish to be an alien from grace, boast your merits," (in Psa 70) Again, "You are nothing in yourself, sin is yours, merit God's. Punishment is your due; and when the reward shall come, God shall crown his own gifts, not your merits
~ John Calvin
Look at you," he said. "A fractured man, a broken thing. I asked for money to kill you, but none would give it. Now I understand why. There is no value to you. You're nothing, and therefore nothing is what your life is worth. But I will kill you anyway, out of pity.
~ John Connolly
Look at you," he said. "A fractured man, a broken thing. I asked for money to kill you, but none would give it. Now I understand why. There is no value to you. You're nothing, and therefore nothing is what your life is worth. But I will kill you anyway, out of pity. I
~ John Connolly
If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expressed But negatives, my love is so. To all which all love, I say no. If any who deciphers best What we know not, ourselves, can know Let him teach me that nothing.
~ John Donne
I've just been livin' a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin' pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing.
~ Lady Sovereign
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
~ Jim Carrey
I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.   Eventually
~ Edward Hirsch
we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.
~ Edward Humes
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
~ Edward St. Aubyn