Nothing Quotes

“There is nothing more dangerous than a person who wants to be left alone but is forced to get involved.”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“Narcissists have a tough job because perfection is viewed as either all or nothing: If you are not perfect, you are imperfect, and if you are imperfect, you are nothing.”
― Theodore Millon, Personality Disorders in Modern Life

“I am not a ghost, I screamed without words. I am not nothing. I am not nameless; I will not fade into graceful oblivion like every other Kunleo girl,”
― Jordan Ifueko , Raybearer

“We must not even evade it, as the Indians do, by myths and meaningless words, such as reabsorption in Brahman, or the Nirvana of the Buddhists. On the contrary, we freely acknowledge that what remains after the complete abolition of the will is, for all who are still full of the will, assuredly nothing. But also conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world with all its suns and galaxies, is—nothing”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Between pain and nothing I had chosen nothing.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“No. Silence is something. This is nothing. Why couldn’t I hear it before? I think it has been there always. From the beginning of time.’ He put out his hand and stubbed it on my arm, stared at it. ‘At the end of the world, at the beginning of the world; under the sea and over the sky; at the root and crown of the universe: nothing. At all. That’s what I heard. What I hear.’ He leaned forward. ‘Do you understand?”
― Betsy James, Listening at the Gate

“Nature, withdrawing into its essence, deposes its living, self-particularizing, self-entangling manifold existence to the level of an unessential husk, which is the covering for the inner being; and this inner being is, in the first instance, still simple darkness, the unmoved, the black, formless stone.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

“So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend which you weep for”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I feel like Sherlock Holmes. All I saw was "nothing," and I drew a bunch of conclusions! Conclusions that are widely speculative and with nothing to prove them, but conclusions!”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this -- that he knows nothing yet.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“There is nothing worse than being in a relationship where you believe your partner is cheating, but you cannot prove it because the cheating happens out of sight!”
― Steven Magee

“Come with me,' Cardan says again, drawing me away from the blood-soaked star chart and the others taking their lessons. 'I am a prince of Faerie. You have to do what I want.'

He leads me to the dappled shade of an oak tree, then lifts me up so I am seated on a low branch. He keeps his hands on my waist and moves closer, so that he's standing between my thighs.

'Isn't this better?' he says, gazing up at me.

I am not sure what he means, but I nod.

'You're so beautiful.' He begins to trace patterns on my arms, then runs his hands down my sides. 'So very beautiful.'

His voice is soft, and I make the mistake of looking into his black eyes, at his wicked, curving mouth.

'But your beauty will fade,' he continues, just as softly, speaking like a lover. His hands linger, making my stomach tighten and warmth pool in my belly. 'This smooth skin will wrinkle and spot. It will become as thin as cobwebs. These breasts will droop. Your hair will grow dull and thin. Your teeth will yellow. And all you have and all you are will rot away to nothing. You will be nothing. You are nothing.'

'I'm nothing,' I echo, feeling helpless in the face of his words.

'You come from nothing, and it is to nothing you will return,' he whispers against my neck.

A sudden panic overtakes me. I need to get away from him. I push off the edge of the branch, but I don't hit the ground. I just fall and fall and fall through the air, dropping like Alice down the rabbit hole.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“If you build something valuable where there was nothing before, the increase
in value is theoretically infinite”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“I know nothing, that is why I seek to know.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“You are nothing, and I love nothing.”
― A guy

“THIS IS NOT a book about not doing anything; it’s a book about doing nothing. The
difference is in the act: unlike plain indolence, doing nothing is a considered attitude that calls at once for patience and alertness.”
― Roman Muradov, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness

“Nothing," Elsa lied. It wasn't possible to put all she was thinking into words.”
― Jen Calonita, Disney Frozen: Let It Go

“We have heard that when it arrived in Europe, zero was treated with suspicion. We don't think of the absence of sound as a type of sound, so why should the absence of numbers be a number, argued its detractors. It took centuries for zero to gain acceptance. It is certainly not like other numbers. To work with it requires some tough intellectual contortions, as mathemati­cian Ian Stewart explains.

"Nothing is more interesting than nothing, nothing is more puzzling than nothing, and nothing is more important than nothing. For mathematicians, nothing is one of their favorite topics, a veritable Pandora's box of curiosities and paradoxes. What lies at the heart of mathematics? You guessed it: nothing.

"Word games like this are almost irresistible when you talk about nothing, but in the case of math this is cheat­ing slightly. What lies at the heart of math is related to nothing, but isn't quite the same thing. 'Nothing' is ­well, nothing. A void. Total absence of thingness. Zero, however, is definitely a thing. It is a number. It is, in fact, the number you get when you count your oranges and you haven't got any. And zero has caused mathematicians more heartache, and given them more joy, than any other number.

"Zero, as a symbol, is part of the wonderful invention of 'place notation.' Early notations for numbers were weird and wonderful, a good example being Roman numerals, in which the number 1,998 comes out as MCMXCVIII ­one thousand (M) plus one hundred less than a thousand (CM) plus ten less than a hundred (XC) plus five (V) plus one plus one plus one (III). Try doing arithmetic with that lot. So the symbols were used to record numbers, while calculations were done using the abacus, piling up stones in rows in the sand or moving beads on wires.”
― Jeremy Webb, Nothing: From absolute zero to cosmic oblivion -- amazing insights into nothingness

“Nothing matters when matters are nothing!”
― Abhijit Kar Gupta

“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will be like nothing that has come before them!”
― Steven Magee

“When I visited Fort Myers, I got the impression it was poor and residential with the exception of the ocean front. It was just a regular town, nothing special.”
― Steven Magee

“I too often live my life on what I’ve borrowed, for I fear that I cannot create these things of my own. And because I borrow, in time I am left with ‘nothing’. And if there’s one thing I don’t have to borrow, it is ‘nothing’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The oddity of it all is that I can do absolutely nothing, yet I am capable of doing absolutely everything. Such a perplexing dichotomy can only be explained by whether I have invited God into my circumstances, or I neglected to mail the invitation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Woman cries for nothing, is sad for no apparent reason
and suffers without anyone knowing why.
And all this goes away as it came: alone and without explanation.
Faced with such a woman,
just approach, be silent, and take his hand.”
― Augusto Branco

“Government law enforcement corruption is nothing new, it has been going on since the crucifixion of Jesus.”
― Steven Magee

“The thing which it is nothing and empty inside, will care about adornment and beauty of outside”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Evil people can have a family, children, a job, a good reputation, and other evil people to make them company, so don't get confused by what seems to be normal because there is no such thing as normal on a planet filled with insane souls. The humans on earth are deeply insane for many reincarnations. Without dreams they are hopeless, and what they think or say means nothing. Even the science of earth is nothing but dust in the wind before the Truth that comes with a real life.”
― Dan Desmarques

“I once entered a Hindu temple in India, and saw people praying to the fire and throwing papers at it. I asked the local priest why they were doing that, and he said it's a common practice in their religion, Hinduism. I smiled and replied that it has nothing to do with Hindu teachings although it is religious indeed.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Do not be fearful when the police threaten you with arrest when you have done nothing wrong.”
― Steven Magee

“When toxic police officers are threatening you with arrest when you have done nothing wrong, you have to think to yourself: What are they up to?”
― Steven Magee