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Quotes About Nothing

What horror to awake at night and in the dimness see the light. Time is white mosquitoes bite I've spent my life on nothing. The thought that stings. How are you, Nothing, sitting around with Something's wife. Buzz and burn is all I learn I've spent my life on nothing. I'm pillowed and padded, pale and puffing lifting household stuffing— carpets, dishes benches, fishes I've spent my life in nothing.
~ Lorine Niedecker
at the end she'd be nothing more than a memory, if that.
~ Lorraine Heath
Some things hurtled. Some slithered. But nothing good ever came out of a blind spot.
~ Louise Penny
And after all it is nothing new / It is only a memory, after all / a memory of a fear.
~ Louise Penny
is it treason to remember what we have done to deserve such villainy nothing we reassure ourselves nothing
~ Lucille Clifton
I by no means say … God is nothing, the Trinity is nothing, the Word of God is nothing, … . I only show that they are not that which the illusions of theology make them[.]
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
For knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, without any work of grace in the soul. You see, even if a man has all knowledge, he may still be nothing, and so, consequently, not be a child of God.
~ John Bunyan
This scripture also did now most sweetly visit my soul; And him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out.  Oh! the comfort that I had from this word, in no wise!  As who should say, By no means, for nothing whatever he hath done. 
~ John Bunyan
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
~ John Cheever
Some of us say wed rather have that something than absolutely nothing.
~ Unknown
I am learning how to be ok without you and I can't wait till the day I get to see you and feel absolutely nothing.
~ Unknown
Truth is, I lied when I said I'm nothing without you...turns out I'm better off.
~ Unknown
It's nothing serious, " he said. "It's just an obsession.
~ Unknown
You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.
~ Felix Dennis
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
~ Boozoo Chavis
From working on heavily researched films such as 'Four Lions' and 'In the Loop,' I knew that research in itself is nothing and it's everything.
~ Jesse Armstrong
The progressive pretense is that these people, who have created virtually nothing, are actually the real creators of the nation's wealth.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Contemplation seems to be the only luxury that costs nothing.
~ Dodie Smith
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.
~ Don DeLillo
Talent is everything; sanity is nothing.
~ Don DeLillo
The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.
~ Donald Barthelme
There is nothing God does not wish to be understood and investigated by reason.'' He
~ Donna Leon
Love says, 'I am everything.' Wisdom says, 'I am nothing.' Between these two my life flows.
~ Jack Kornfield
We came to the conclusion that they left you here because any decision can be analysed, and that their lack of decision indicated the only thing they wanted us to know, which is that we must know nothing.
~ Jacqueline Harpman