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Quotes About Nothing

And it will betray its worshipers, leaving them defenseless in the face of a tomorrow that will surely come. It may be a slow coming, and a long one, but come it will, and all their desperation will not stop it. Nothing will stop it. "I
~ Leigh Brackett
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.
~ Lemony Snicket
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
~ Lemony Snicket
Life has so many surprises that the only real surprise in life is when nothing surprising happens.
~ Lemony Snicket
To hear the phrase 'our only hope' always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.
~ Lemony Snicket
Life is worth nothing, life is worth nothing, It always starts with crying and with crying ends. And that's why, in this world, life is worth nothing.
~ Len Deighton
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), there shall be no check to my genius from beginning to end.
~ Jane Austen
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love;
~ Jane Austen
With such rivals for the notice of the fair as Mr. Wickham and the officers, Mr. Collins seemed to sink into insignificance; to the young ladies he certainly was nothing
~ Jane Austen
Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I had a very easy middle class upbringing and never had to worry about anything. But my parents came from nothing and from broken homes, and their stories were always very interesting.
~ Kevin Morby
The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid her to rest in January.
~ Rachel Autumn Deering, Husk
Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.
~ Sergei Diaghilev
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
~ Johannes Tauler
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
I think Steve Bannon is much to-do about nothing. I think this is a guy who wants to create his own myth.
~ Ana Navarro
Snow falls in the Moosewood Sandhills, on ghost burrows, deer woods, in the bone-home, last snow. What does it mean to become nothing? You've dug a cave in the earth, room of knowing, room of tears. It means to place yourself beneath irrational things and know they are without blame. The potato smell of the dark. You've given up.
~ Tim Lilburn
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."—Oscar Wilde
~ Timothy Ferriss
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.
~ Alona Tal
I never let nothing ever get to me. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
~ Aaron Donald
Nothing to be done about it except give her a reproachful look. I did this. It made no impression whatever, and she proceeded.
~ p g wodehouse