Quotes About Nothing

The deity they want, is, of course, finite, a person much like themselves, with thoughts and feelings limited and mutable in the process of time.... And for their purpose, what is not this is really nothing.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

"She's the sort of woman now," said Mould… "one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!"

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven,

fancy makes me shudder to-night, when all is so black and solemn—" "Let us shudder too. We may know what it is." "It will seem nothing to you.

If you will hear me through a very little more, all you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Because, if it is to spite her," Biddy pursued, "I should think — but you know best — that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think — but you know best — she was not worth gaining over.

It's Saturday — should I just sit down and do nothing or lay down and do nothing?

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Don't worry: there's nothing you can do to rob me of my healthy respect for the possibility that your incompetence will kill me.

Order my life. I'm nothing without you: fragments of time, fragments of words, fragments of feelings. Make sense of me. Make me whole.

Yet "nothing" is not quite Faulkner's last word, only the next to the last. In the end, the negativist is no nihilist, for he affirms the void.

Conversation… is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

He was twenty-eight then. I was twenty. What followed was strange. An attachment? A conviction? I make no case for it, either way. Or only this case: that it was based on nothing and fed on nothing. For the next three years we saw each other for a few days a year, that was all. Wet English winters. Black rooms above pubs... Rather he looked dull, resentful. His eyes in shadow; dark slots.

Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked, "What do the lamas do?" she continued. "They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom." "But that isn't doing anything." "Then, madam, they do nothing." "I thought as much.

_ What do the [monks] do? [...] _ They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom. _ But that isn't *doing* anything. _ Then, madam, they do nothing. _ I thought as much.

It's better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing. Because if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If it hadn't been for emptiness, there would have been nothing to fill. Nothing to struggle with, strive for or dream, that pushes all our nothings into something.

If it hadn't been for emptiness, there would have been nothing to fill. Nothing to struggle with, strive for or dream for. That pushes all our nothings into something.

We're just ordinary people, simply doing our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

We're just ordinary people, simply doing our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.