Quotes
Quotes about Nothing
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature...is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise
There's nothing that keeps its youth,
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
