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Quotes About Nothing

It's just that the passing of time is irrevocably the passing of you. And then nothing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Who can dream of God? This man did. In his dreams God was much occupied. Spoken to He did not answer. Called to did not hear. The man could see Him bent at his work. As if through a glass. Seated solely in the light of his own presence. Weaving the world. In his hands it flowed out of nothing and in his hands it vanished into nothing once again. Endlessly.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Who can dream of God? This man did. In his dreams God was much occupied. Spoken to He did not answer. Called to did not hear. The man could see Him bent at his work. As if through a glass. Seated solely in the light of his own presence. Weaving the world. In his hands it flowed out of nothing and in his hands it vanished into nothing once again. Endlessly. Endlessly.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion
~ Cormac McCarthy
He'd the notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing else, sir? came the neutral voice, like one in a dream.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Get engaged, to any man on earth? No, good heavens, nothing more ridiculous could be imagined!
~ D.H. Lawrence
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing
~ Walt Whitman
These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me. If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing, if they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing, if they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing. If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
~ Walt Whitman
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing
~ Walt Whitman
These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing, If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing
~ Walt Whitman
You must pay for everything in this world, one way or another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.
~ Charles Portis
There is nothing free except the Grace of God.
~ Charles Portis
You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
~ Charles Portis
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
~ Charlie Kaufman
When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
~ Hannah Arendt
That Smathers is smart. He got ever'body off the hook. Even the company. An' he got us so tied in that there's nothin' we can say
~ Harold Robbins
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
~ Harry S. Truman
I looked at her when she was saying this and I realized that there is absolutely nothing you can say to a person who would feel comfortable suggesting something like that, let alone a direct accusation.
~ Harvey Pekar
It is not a Christmas tree!" said the King, so firmly that all the girls stopped jumping about. "This is a house of mourning. It is nothing more than a tree. I thought it would look nice. Inside. That is all.
~ Heather Dixon
Again and again we trade infinite wonder for a handful of statue; we barter the limitless Nothing for the short-term bird in the hand. And when the deal is done, we have become what we serve: things rather than children of light.
~ Lawrence Kushner
All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?
~ le guin ursula k iii
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.
~ lee bruce iv
a universe in thermal equilibrium, in which nothing happened except random motion of the atoms, would have no clock.
~ Lee Smolin