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Quotes About Nothing

There was no doubt that he was her target. She looked determined to do something unpleasant to him as soon as she was close enough. He took a step back as she marched towards him in what he could only think of as a stampede -- one consisting of nothing and nobody but herself.
~ Sophie Hannah
Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn't make sense now. I'm just going home.
~ Stacey Donovan
Earth's nothing more than a rotating ball of boredom.
~ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Life demands nothing from us Except, To die. It is the ultimate act of humility. It is the ultimate act of final humanity.
~ Stark Hunter
Do not be afraid of my words: a dead woman wants nothing more, she wants neither love nor pity nor consolation.
~ Stefan Zweig
I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
~ Stendhal
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
~ Albert Camus
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
~ Iris Murdoch
So close no matter how far ,couldn't be much more from the heart,forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters
~ Metallica
an angel sent on this business…could have done nothing
~ Michael B. Oren
You ask me what you will be there. But what are you here? What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in a neverending story. Do you think you're real? Well yes, here in your world you are. But when you been through the Nothing, you won't be real anymore. You'll be unrecognizable. And you will be in another world. In that world, you Fantasticans won't be anything like yourselves. You will bring delusion and madness into the human world.
~ Michael Ende
When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own. Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you'll help them persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.
~ Michael Ende
When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own. Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you'll help them persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them. Yes, you little Fantastican, big things will be done in the human world with your help, wars started, empires founded …
~ Michael Ende
When you fed into those models the question "What happens if you do nothing but close schools and reduce the social interaction of minors by 60 percent?," they responded, slowly, but as one: that works.
~ Michael Lewis
Wall Street paid the most for what I could do, which was nothing.
~ Michael Lewis
How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.
~ Mindy Kaling
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
~ Aldous Huxley
At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.
~ Rajneesh
Nothing really matters; love is all we need.
~ Madonna Ciccone
What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't.
~ Bill Bryson
Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
~ Bill Bryson
It is a myth, and physiological impossibility, incidentally, that hair and nails continue to grow after death. Nothing grows after death.
~ Bill Bryson