Quotes

Quotes about Nothing


Thank you for nothing.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.

Andoche Junot

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing is changed in France; there is only one Frenchman more.

Miscellaneous Translations

They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Miscellaneous Translations

And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Old Testament

Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.

New Testament

Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

New Testament

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

New Testament

As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

New Testament

Nothing succeeds like success.

Appendix

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.

The mind naturally strays and wanders, holding to nothing very long, coming back frequently to the same point again and again but rarely staying there

Nothing capable of a moral assessment inheres in a language; it remains neutral and innocuous.

So cunning is the art that the substantial masses lead the eye to him, and he is nothing, the expandable, the faceless. He needs no face, being about to die.

God made his mind up, right from the beginning, that some were damned, some saved, and strictly what you did with life, saintly by choice or sinning, mattered to God not one benighted jot. You prosper? That probably means you're winning. You're losing, lost - the sudden voices shout it. You're lost, and nothing can be done about it.

If I am remembered for nothing else, I should like to be remembered for one sentence: 'He breathed baffingly on him, for no banquet would serve, because of the known redolence of onions, onions, onions'

I am doing nothing to promote life, even if I am not actively embracing death

Nothing is ever wasted

The flow of time means nothing in itself, and yet, in ordinary life, we are forced to travel along it

Circle is circle, proves nothing, makes nothing, swallows up process and end in no argument, brings new picture of old time.

He had pretended to nothing except the fitting of words like gloves to a story

This book, this exterior thing, must take its buffets from a world as indifferent as the sea, knowing and caring nothing of the author, making no allowances

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