Nothing Quotes

“Things are entirely what they appear to be and BEHIND THEM... there is nothing.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Remain in the eternal
nebula, there,
in the polyessence of a sweet nonbeing.”
― César Vallejo, The Complete Poetry

“here we are, all of us, eating and drinking to preserve our precious existence, and that there's nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“The only moments I think of with relief are those when I sought to be nothing for anyone, when I blushed at the notion of leaving the slightest trace in the memory of a single human being...”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“When you've lost everything and the only thing holding you up is the ground you're standing on, you trust that and, in its grace, you start the walk again.”
― Kayo K.

“All of a sudden, I realized that it would not matter to me whether the world existed or whether there was nothing at all anywhere. I began to intuit and sense with all my being, that there was nothing around me.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

“Sometimes taking a moment to do ‘nothing’ is the best ‘something’ that we can do.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We see that the ens rationis is distinguished from the nihil negativum or pure nothing by the consideration that the former must not be reckoned among possibilities, because it is a mere fiction- though not self-contradictory, while the latter is completely opposed to all possibility, inasmuch as the conception annihilates itself. Both, however, are empty conceptions. On the other hand, the nihil privativum and ens imaginarium are empty data for conceptions. If light be not given to the senses, we cannot represent to ourselves darkness, and if extended objects are not perceived, we cannot represent space. Neither the negation, nor the mere form of intuition can, without something real, be an object.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“For some people the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Nothing can replace that satisfaction by getting things exactly as you want.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“She tilted her chin determinedly. 'I always want the truth from you, Dayan. Without that between us, we have nothing at all.'”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Melody

“Que absurda existencia la nuestra! —pensaba—. La desdicha, el dinero, Dolokhov, el odio, el honor..., todo eso no es nada...”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Malam tanpa ujung, mengulang kembali tanpa henti”
― Restu

“It is far too trite to simply say that we should be ‘thankful,’ for that renders thankfulness as some sort of socially conditioned practice empty of everything and full of nothing. Rather, we should sternly commit to being perpetually thankful so that we might become people empty of nothing and full of everything.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Please start a business during this depressive recession. Your opportunity only goes up from here. Opportunities come and go but if you do nothing about them so do you.”
― Richie Norton

“Well what do you have an urge to do.”
“Nothing,”
― Charles Webb, The Graduate

“The word NOTHING lacks comparison when there’s an absence of action. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, as said by Billy Preston. Yet, the decision to do nothing can differ. Indicating that, once before in time, a decision was made in a similar scenario of some sort.

Can we trust without comparison? A response from a friend suggested that because trust is debatably a natural instinct [similar to love] and comparison is not of the like, you can trust without comparison.”
― Demetrius Williamson, Jr., A Book That I Would Read

“...feeling of being everything and the evidence of being nothing.' I happened across this phrase in my youth, and was overwhelmed by it. Everything I felt in those days, and everything I would feel from then on, was summed up in this extraordinary banal formula, the synthesis of expansion and failure, ecstasy and impasse. Most often it is not in a paradox but in a truism that a revelation appears.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I have nothing in my life; however, I have moral values and love with the colour of truth; it prevails all subjects and objects. -”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Achieving nothing is extremely easy – anyone can achieve that. It takes nothing to achieve nothing, but to achieve something, it takes, focus, determination, self-respect, confidence & smart efforts.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“When you are nothing,
you are everything.

-be indifferent to both.”
― Sumit Tak

“If I don’t act upon that which I say I trust, I am doing neither and therefore I am accomplishing nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life is millions of billions of trillions of transformations of something into some things, or another thing; never into nothing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I live with one thing in mind. Nothing!”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“At this moment, my fingers are on a computer keboard. I'm going to type "geimu" and try to decide how I want the computer to convert it. Will it be a positive [...] (artful dream), or a negative [...] (receive nothing)? Or will i remain as it always has: [...] (video game)?”
― Hideo Kojima, The Creative Gene: How books, movies, and music inspired the creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid

“It's when we have nothing that we can give everything that we have.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“To believe in nothing is to believe that you actually believe in nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But barring an urgent need for survival the human body is perfectly content to simply rest and do nothing. Doing things, doing anything, requires a certain amount of energy, and our bodies would rather save up that energy just in case they need it later.”
― Scott Carney, What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength

“Nothing matters much. Much matters little. In the end nothing matters.”
― Mimi Kwa, House of Kwa

“The best way to end up having nothing is to get everything that you want.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough