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Quotes About Nothing

All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing. You are nothing. It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true.
~ Rachel Hartman
She didn't resist the rush of tears. If there was no sadness about leaving New York, then her time here would've meant nothing.
~ Rachel Hauck
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD.
~ Randall Jarrell
I see at least that all knowledge I wrung from the darkness-- that the darkness flung me-- is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, the darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness and we call it wisdom. It is pain.
~ Randall Jarrell
La vie? Un rien l'amène, un rien l'anime, un rien la mine, un rien l'emmène.
~ Raymond Queneau
It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.
~ Craig Thompson
If there is nothing in the wicket for spinners, then it's good to try something different. Over the wicket or around the wicket, just try and create chances.
~ Ravindra Jadeja
There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.
~ Arne Duncan
That's the thing about 'Sex Education,' the shooting situations are so bizarre that nothing is a surprise any more. It's just another day at the office.
~ Ncuti Gatwa
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
~ Josh Billings
Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...
~ Raymond Chandler
Gin, dissi io. Capito tutto. La gente per bene non beve gin. La gente per bene non beve niente, precisò la vecchia.
~ Raymond Chandler
Quando tutto si tace così, alto come qua, tutto porta al cuore. O più ancora verso gli organi copulatori. Oh, musica eterea delle sfere! Oh, potenza erotica delle semicrome cosmiche obliterate dalla tendenza gravitazionale e fatale del mondo verso il niente!
~ Raymond Queneau
Watcha doin? If you're like me, you're doin nothin, but you're doin it so well that everybody thinks you're doin somethin.
~ Richard Brautigan
I suspect that both astronomers were, yet again, bending over backwards to be polite: theologians have nothing worthwhile to say about anything else; let's throw them a sop and let them worry away at a couple of questions that nobody can answer and maybe never will.
~ Richard Dawkins
A man, good or bad, was magnificent. It was not possible that this thing that was nothing and would never change [death] could mean the end of everything that moved and changed within him - the good, the bad, the magnificent. Yet it did.
~ Richard Flanagan
Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing
~ Richard Gerber
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~ Richard K. Morgan
Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end? -Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens.
~ K?b? Abe
The void is a spectral realm; not even nothing can be free of ghosts.
~ Karen Barad
They had nothing left to throw at Earth now, not unless the Forerunners decided to rise from the dead.
~ Karen Traviss
History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
~ Karl Marx
Civilizations rose and fell and in the end everything was dust and sand. Nothing beside remained. Hotels, maybe.
~ Kate Atkinson