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Quotes About Nothing

When I got the call to do a song for the sound track for this little movie that I was told was called 'Dancing Dirty,' I wasnt that wild about the idea. Probably no one would ever see it. What good would it do? But I said: 'What the heck... I've got nothing better to do.'
~ Eric Carmen
I seemed alone with Death absolute! It was not the absence of everything I felt, but the presence of Nothing. The darkness knows neither the light nor itself; only the light knows itself and the darkness also. None but God hates evil and understand it.
~ George MacDonald
You have fallen into a fit of despondency, and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.
~ Georgette Heyer
I waited for nothing. And nothing arrived. A deep ice stole its way into my heart. I felt it settle in and numb the valves and quiet the wind that blew inside my frame, heard it set upon my bones and breathe silence into the brittle spaces, everything that was broken. At that moment my heart knew the peace of cold. I gave up on my friend, and the night watch was done, for only his spirit would ever come to me again.
~ Gerard Donovan
It was a strange winter and nothing and everything happened.
~ Gertrude Stein
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.
~ Arthur Scargill
If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It's all or nothing. In this damn world, it's all or nothing.
~ Glennon Doyle Melton
I have nothing bad to say about Briedis. His style is a bit boring, but I respect him. Briedis is a world champion, so he has to be good.
~ Oleksandr Usyk
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
I bring you nothing: no riches, no magic. But I don't need that; I don't want that. All I have to offer is my love, but that love has no limits and imposes none on you.
~ Sarah Kozloff
Then she said, "Your plays balance on air I mean they are air I mean they are performed in air so they are air. "If a whole city could balance on a seed then a city could balance on a play because a play is air and everything is air. "Your next play should be about a seed because a seed is smaller than an almond. Or maybe your next play should be smaller than an almond, about nothing, about air.
~ Sarah Ruhl
nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the
~ Scott Anderson
If only you'd landed on your head, you'd have nothing to fear but the bill for damaged cobblestones.
~ Scott Lynch
My thermograph got nothing," he said. "I think that place is deader than Bob Dole's dick.
~ Scott Nicholson
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
~ Daniel Handler
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
~ Robert Browning
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.
~ Walter Lippmann
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.
~ Markus Zusak
There was an intense spurt of coughing. Almost an  inspired  spurt. And soon after – nothing.
~ Markus Zusak
In modern thought, (if not in fact) Nothing is that doesn't act, So that is reckoned wisdom which Describes the scratch but not the itch.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence — complete and heart-subduing silence.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer takes any share in his individual phenomenon, because in him knowledge has, as it were, burnt up and consumed the will, so that no will, thus no desire for individual existence, remains in him any more.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The alternative was to do nothing.
~ Atul Gawande