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Quotes About Nothing

Una vez más, la nada parecía destino hospitalario para un demoledor de sus propias certezas. La nada era una prórroga, una tregua, una hipoteca.
~ Xavier Velasco
But I'm afraid to begin composing in order to be understood by the imaginary someone, I'm afraid to start to "make" a meaning, with the same tame madness that till yesterday was my healthy way of fitting into a system. Will I need the courage to use an unprotected heart and keep talking to the nothing and the no one? as a child thinks about the nothing. And run the risk of being crushed by chance.
~ Clarice Lispector
I'm stalling. I know that everything I say is just to put it off-to put off the moment when I'll have to start talking, knowing that there is nothing more for me to say. I'm putting off my silence. Have I been putting off silence for my whole life? but now, in my disparagement of the word, perhaps I'll finally be able to start talking." (14)
~ Clarice Lispector
The heart must present itself alone to the Nothing and alone beat out in silence its palpitations in the shadows. You only sense your own heart in your ears. When it presents itself completely naked, it's not even communication, it's submission. For we were only made for the little silence, not for the silence of the stars.
~ Clarice Lispector
Life, my love, is a great seduction in which all that exists seduces. That room that was deserted and for that reason primally alive. I had reached the nothing, and the nothing was living and moist.
~ Clarice Lispector
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
~ Claude Vorilhon
I tell you, it's misery. There is nothing more dreadful to me than the sight of people getting drunk. And that's what they call life. And that's what you call life. I tell you, it's death.
~ Unknown
The terrifying freedom of knowing that nothing, from now on, will become a memory.
~ Unknown
How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a card saying I really hope you like your nothing and lie awake worrying that the nothing I got you was the right color nothing you always anted? Have a heart!
~ Hilary McKay
I couldn't stop being afraid of myself. Afraid of the monster I saw when I glimpsed my reflection in still pools, in windows... But all I am is magic. Unmagic. I am nothing. I am what is beyond nothing. Annihilation. I am the unraveler. I can pull apart magic with a thought.
~ Holly Black
You come from nothing, and it is to nothing you will return,¨ he whispers against my neck. ( judes dream ) Page 48
~ Holly Black
So long as there really was nothing wrong with his soul.
~ Holly Black
No need for dramatics.' 'I am nothing,' Cardan said, 'if not dramatic.
~ Holly Black
My wounded hand flies to cover my mouth in horror at the curse, as though to stop the scream, but I don't scream. I haven't screamed this whole time, and I am not going to start now, when there's nothing more to scream about.
~ Holly Black
In the cool dark of the stables, with the snorting of faerie horses all around us, he takes my hands. "Nothing there would be the same without you.
~ Holly Black
Give me an order again," I say, "and I will show you true shame. Locke's games will be as nothing to what I make you do.
~ Holly Black
To those who have exhausted statecraft, nothing remains but the realm of pure thought.
~ Unknown
In the desert there is all—and yet nothing…. God is there and man is not.
~ Honore de Balzac
They're sliding around in disguise like gods. It's two in the afternoon. It's four. You can't take these hours apart and repair them. Nothing's wrong with them.
~ Unknown
Carol: I blame the Erotic Book Club. But that's just me. Jonathan: There was nothing erotic about the Erotic Book Club, I'll tell you that for free.
~ Liane Moriarty
Nothing can scatter like 3 Siamese cats better than 2 Siamese cats.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Well", he says finally. "There's a lot to be said for being unencumbered". He looks greedily around at the nothing of my life. "It's the scent of freedom in here, Casey. You won't be able to smell it till you've lost it.
~ Lily King
Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.
~ Linda Howard
But the one thing he could not have imagined is that we were withholding nothing. That there was nothing on the other side of our silly rules; nothing.
~ Lionel Shriver