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Quotes About Nothing

I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insignificance or our unhappiness, but on the contrary to our fulfillment and our divinity, since everything is in ourselves.
~ Henri Barbusse
I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same I desired some sort of reward.
~ Henri Barbusse
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
~ Henri-Frdric Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
But the main direction of Christ's teaching is to urge that the soul's rest comes not from self-occupation, but from faith in God; that what we can do for ourselves is as nothing compared with what God can do for us.
~ HENRY CHARLES BEECHING
Love is greater than faith, because the end is greater than the means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith. "If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
~ Henry Drummond
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
~ Henry Kissinger
We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.
~ Henry Rollins
It's nothing. It tastes like peppermint.
~ Henry Slesar
And yet he wondered, was it enough? It must be... there was nothing else.
~ Leon Garfield
It was nothing, it was business but it left an ugly mark.
~ Leonard Cohen
Directly stated, the evolution of the entire universe—stars, elements, life, man—is a process of drawing something out of nothing, out of the utter void of nonbeing.
~ Leonard Everett Fisher
An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Nothing matters, and everything matters.
~ Leonard Woolf
What nonsense! There's nothing so clean as a healthy pussy!
~ Leonora Carrington
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
~ Leonora Carrington
The long tentacles of vision and understanding have withdrawn and all that is left to me is the ragged black hole of my loss. Loss and the world around. A noisy puzzle whose solution is another puzzle noisier and more stupid. The circle widens toward nothing. The answer is hiding somewhere, if I could only read.
~ Leonora Carrington
This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I curl up and close my eyes and darkness flows like lava, and I dissapear into what, into nothing, into pure dark, into what there is before there is anything else.
~ Leslie Pietrzyk
Trying to learn anything in any circumstances — is caring what people think, and so is worth nothing.
~ Leslie Scalapino
trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything. The
~ Lev Grossman
We should to do it," he said. "Today of all days." "We're accepting congratulations for doing nothing." "We're reassuring the people of continuity in the face of tragedy.
~ Lev Grossman
I'll just get my things" "I understand." "Actually I haven't got any things.
~ Lev Grossman
Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.
~ lewis c s vii
Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!
~ Lewis Carroll