Nothing Quotes

“Nihil est sine ratione.
[There is nothing without a reason.]”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“If nothing lasts forever, then I am forever nothing.”
― Anthony Liccione

“..."But what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, What are you going to do Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and you go and do it." "Oh, I see," said Pooh. "This is a nothing sort of thing that we're doing right now." "Oh, I see," said Pooh again. "It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“Nothing is mightier than our why, nothing stands above it, because in the end there is a why to which no answer is possible. In fact, from why to why, from one step to the next, you get to the end of things. And it is only by travelling from one why to the next, as far as the why that is unanswerable, that man attains the level of the creative principle, facing the infinite, equal to the infinite maybe. So long as he can answer the why he gets lost, he loses his way among things. 'Why this?' I answer, 'because that," and from one explanation to the next I reach the point where no explanation is satisfying, from one explanation to the next I reach zero, the absolute, where truth and falsehood are equivalent, become equal to one another, are identified with one another, cancel each other out in face of the absolute nothing. And so we can understand how all action, all choice, all history is justified, at the end of time, by a final cancelling-out. The why goes beyond everything. Nothing goes beyond the why, not even the nothing, because the nothing is not the explanation; when silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate why, that great why is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out, there is nothing more to make out.”
― Eugène Ionesco, Fragments of a Journal

“I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“What was after the universe?

Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)”
― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary

“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)

Whispering to myself
With every step I take,
Trying out names, for I know
There is something yet to be called …..

I know it, something up ahead
Just around the bend
Or over the rise –
A bird taking to the sky
From the edge of a jagged cliff –
A bird floating outwards
In silence ……. A silence
Waiting for a footstep
To crunch on stones,
For a voice to fling upward
Through sharp sunlight
With a name…… calling
Before the bird could call
Before the bird called.

Oh the bird was there alright
And sure it took flight
When it heard me approach
But it broke my heart
With a mighty croak!

So I’m sitting here playing
With a purple flower
Slender stem, no leaves
Purple fizz –

And it’s quiet again.
I am still
I am nothing
And the hill
Is a long, long slope
Down, down, down to the sea
Far below.

I could roll
I could run
I could scream
But I am nothing.

A cool wind blows
And the light is naked and nameless
And the rocks are faces of angels
And the bird in the sky wheels
And cries to forget the earth
And its ancient bones –
Oh, sensual pain –
Wings…. Wings…. Wings,
Singing wings.

If only I could begin
To describe the emptiness
Which fills me to the brim
With new breath

I might almost lose my name
And take instead a feather for my soul.”
― Jay Woodman

“Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most.”
― Anthony Liccione

“If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing”
― shujoy chowdhury

“You’re as plain as the nose on your face,” said Mr. Pennyworth. “And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice.”
― Anne Rice, Merrick

“Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.”
― Allie Burke, Paper Souls

“The rose, however, made us girls somewhat fainthearted, because it really was something we felt mattered, the white bridal dream with the wedding bouquet and the kiss from the man who was to be ours forever. But then Laura said that the lady who had given it to us had gotten divorced only five years later. And since many of our parents were also divorce, if indeed they had ever been married at all, that dream clearly wasn't worth our time.”
― Janne Teller

“There are two groups of people in this world; first, those who have everything but nothing and second, those who have nothing but everything.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers

You’ve got nothing,
I’ve got nothing,
And it’s not a good thing.”
― Arzum Uzun

“Non-possession” does not mean having nothing. It does not mean to live as a penniless beggar. Rather than meaning having nothing, it is the idea of not possessing what we do not need. The more we possess, The more we have attachments.”
― Boep Joeng

“Well, I have learned nothing from my mistakes what the fuck is next?”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Sometimes you don’t lose hope, not because you are hopeful , but there is nothing else to hope for.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.

We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.”
― Jay Woodman, SPAN

“*Nothing is free* asserts two things. Both assertions are true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you don't have a goal, you will score zero even if you run with the fastest speed.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Everything else is nothing.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“To live a normal life, you just have to believe nothing is normal.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“We can’t have what we want and nothing is gonna change it.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“We come from nothing, we go back into nothing.
That nothing is something, that something is everything.
That everything is the cosmos.
Is this a grand joke telling us? What we really are; just nothing.”
― Gian Kumar