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Nothing Quotes

Sometimes nothing says the most.

"Nothing" carries surprisingly different tones across this set — frustration with limited consumer protections sits next to warm nostalgia for a cheap, music-filled stretch of life in Paris. For quotes on affection and belonging, see Love quotes.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

Quotes by Wiz Khalifa

By the age of nine, I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew...

Quotes by Wladyslaw Reymont

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

Quotes by Winslow Homer

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Quotes by Wilson Mizner

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

Quotes by Winfried Vahland

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Quotes by Willie Nelson

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

Quotes by Willie Stargell

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Quotes by William Wyler

There is nothing clever about confusion.

Quotes by William Wyler

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Quotes by Willie Dixon

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

Quotes by William Wilberforce

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in...

Quotes by William Wordsworth

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how...

Quotes by William Throsby Bridges

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

Quotes by William Vickrey

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

Quotes by William Stephenson

If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.

Quotes by William Stone

Nothing can come of nothing.

William Shakespeare

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the "Nothing" quotes on this page cover?
A mix of consumer frustration, nostalgia, and personal reflection - one speaker criticizes Amazon for not doing enough to protect customers, another recalls buying cheap CD collections while living in Paris, and others reflect on identity and contentment.
Is there a quote about consumer protection or companies?
Yes, one quote describes frustration with Amazon, saying the company protects against a small credit card liability but falls short elsewhere, without fully spelling out what's missing in the excerpt shown.
Is there a quote about living abroad?
Yes, one quote recalls nine years spent in Paris starting in '98, remembering wonderful CD collections that could be found there for almost nothing. For more reflections shaped by personal experience, see the Life page.
Does this page include anything about identity or feeling like an outsider?
Yes - one quote reflects on having many fans who are people of color, and on understanding "that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally." The Like page has more reflections in a similar vein.
Is there a simple, upbeat quote here about contentment?
Yes, one quote is just a short, plain statement: "I have nothing to complain about." For more short, feel-good lines, check out the Good page, or browse Love for warmer sentiments.

Other entries turn the word toward feeling like an outsider, or toward a quieter kind of satisfaction with having very little to complain about. Continue with Good quotes for a more upbeat register, or Life quotes for broader reflection.