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Quotes About Nothing

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
i over love.i under love.i am either a floodor i am nothing.
~ AVA., you are safe here.
Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
~ Bill Hader
I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.
~ Margrethe Vestager
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
~ Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
~ Karl Marx
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.
~ Rafael Sabatini
Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.
~ Henry Vaughan
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.
~ William Shakespeare
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
~ George Meredith
There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Your ability to experience the great bliss that comes from recognition of your true nature depends on nothing but practice.
~ Tenzin Wangyal
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
~ The Metro Para pledge
Nothing, for us, can fill the place of undiminished brightness except the unconscious dark; nothing that of what once we might have been, except the dream that we had never been born.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash of class interests, human behavior is nothing but a response to economic incentives, etc., etc.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I answer that, God alone, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, is from eternity. Catholic Faith holds this without doubt; and everything to the contrary must be rejected as heretical. For God so produced creatures that He made them "from nothing"; that is, after they had not been.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
~ Diane Cilento
I can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the flat battery; but just at the wrong moment I catch a glimpse at the night sky..., and I can see that there's nothing out there at all.
~ Nick Hornby
The world will spiral out from underneath you, and you will find nothing to hold on to because you are either too smart or too dumb to find God…
~ Nick McDonell
And you know why I didn't get those scans?" He looked back at the blanket-draped figure. "I was scared of dying. Terrified. Didn't want to face it. Didn't want to acknowledge it might happen—that I'd be forced to retire, confined to a hospital bed and get bed sores all over my ass. And then, boom. Nothing. No thoughts. No feeling. No existing. Just ... nothing.
~ Nick Webb