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Quotes About Nothing

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
~ Janis Joplin
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
~ Albert Einstein
There's nothing more solemn than truth. There's no greater grievance to a tomb than hypocrisy, or a greater tribute to death than truth
~ Unknown
I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him
~ Unknown
It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
~ Marilyn Monroe
My mood settles around me, a wool coat that seems to grow heavier with the months in which I accomplish very little--and then, since the coat is too heavy to allow movement, accomplish nothing at all.
~ Mark Doty
We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!
~ Mark Leyner
Because we are refugees of war now, people who left their lands behind. We have nothing, so we get to say nothing.
~ Unknown
All women are good - good for nothing, or good for something.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome.
~ Mark Warner
She catches hold, then of this word "nothing," and stabs at it with a multitude of words and examples, and by means of a suitable interpretation, reduces it to this, that "nothing" can mean the same as "only a little thing" or "an imperfect thing;" she expounds in other words what the Sophists have hitherto taught regarding this passage: "Apart from me you can do nothing," that is to say "nothing perfectly.
~ Martin Luther
It is the nature of God's Word and the regulation of His will first to destroy what is in us and reduce to nothing whatever we are, and then erect His own structure.
~ Martin Luther
Theology is nothing else but grammar engaged with the words of the Holy Spirit.
~ Martin Luther
What is innermost is the fullness, and there is nothing further within.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Unknown
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing
~ Bible
It is well, if one has nothing, to acquire an air.
~ Mary MacLane
When the mind thinks nothing, when the soul covets nothing, and the body acteth nothing that is contrary to the will of God, this is perfect sanctification. ANONYMOUS, in an old Bible, 1599.
~ Unknown
Civility costs nothing and buys everything
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it'.
~ Matt Haig
A deep, dreamless nothing, and now – thanks to the ring of a phone alarm – she was awake and didn't know where she was.
~ Matt Haig
and could occasionally be arrogant in his opinions on art and film and music, but there was nothing overtly wrong with him. Well – now that she thought about it – he'd never been supportive of her music career
~ Matt Haig
It is the contemplation of absurd odds. We are all inside a dream that is real. We are the fires conjured from nothing. We exist out of near impossibility. And yet we exist.
~ Matt Haig