Nothing Quotes

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men’s advances as long as they are in cash.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

The Enlightened One has told you in never-to-be- forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing, and if you realize the nothingness of all that appears before your eyes, the nothingness of this material case that we see before us ever changing, then indeed there are treasures […]

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose, You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal. So – How does it feel? How does it feel? To be on your own, With no direction home, Like a complete unknown, Like a rolling stone? (Robert Zimmerman)