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Quotes About Nothing

As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.
~ Blaise Pascal
For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.
~ Blaise Pascal
For after all, what is man in creation? Is he not a mere cipher compared with the infinite, a whole compared to the nothing, a mean between zero & all, infinitely remote from understanding of either extreme? Who can follow these astonishing processes? The Author of these wonders understands them, but no one else can.
~ Blaise Pascal
The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.
~ Bob Dylan
Though the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools, I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
~ Bob Dylan
Send them all my salary On the waters of oblivion Too much of nothing Can turn a man into a liar It can cause one man to sleep on nails And another man to eat fire Ev'rybody's doin' somethin' I heard it in a dream But when there's too much of nothing It just makes a fella mean
~ Bob Dylan
Ah,it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not,then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs,which think themselves new; and which are yet but old,which pretend to be young like fine ladys at the opera.
~ Bram Stoker
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it. --from Elm, written 19 April 1962
~ Sylvia Plath
Is it the sea you hear in me, Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness? --from Elm, written 19 April 1962
~ Sylvia Plath
Fashion blurbs, silver and full of nothing, sent up their fishy bubbles in my brain. They surfaced with a hollow pop.
~ Sylvia Plath
I don't believe there is a life after death in the literal sense. I don't believe my individual ego or spirit is unique and important enough to wake up after burial and soar to bliss and pink clouds in heaven. If we leave the body behind as we must, we are nothing.
~ Sylvia Plath
And then you came back, you The angel of destruction-just as I felt sure. In a moment, at your touch, there is nothing but ruin.
~ T.S. Eliot
The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden?
~ Ted Dekker
I did it." Who leaves a message like that? Who is so paranoid that they have to be so cryptic? If this wasn't day one of my Summer of Nothing, I might be in a hurry to figure this out. but first: breakfast.
~ Julie Halpern
Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.
~ Junot Diaz
Nothing could move me away from my admiration of Jeff Sessions.
~ Jim Inhofe
There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.
~ Reza Aslan
Jesus died with nothing at all and preached that the poor are blessed. He condemned those who have riches and are content that others remain poor.
~ Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
~ Francis Macdonald Cornford
Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing
~ Francis Picabia
I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past remind me of nothing I'm so damn empty
~ Frank O'Hara
willow trees, willow trees they remind me of Desdemona I'm so damned literary and at the same time the waters rushing past remind me of nothing
~ Frank O'Hara
A mental habit has been annihilated, but at least the way towards a sounder mental habit is clear. For although we are made of nothing, we are made into something; and since WHAT WE ARE MADE OF does not account for us, we are forced to a more intense concentration upon THE GOD WE ARE MADE BY.
~ Frank Sheed
tejido. Nada. El jersey de cuello de tortuga que había llevado el hombre fue tarea
~ Frederick Forsyth