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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.

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is...

Quotes by William Ernest Henley

But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled.

Quotes by William Cavendish

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

Quotes by William Cavendish

The great security of all is to eat little and to drink nothing that intoxicates. He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast, and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.

Quotes by William Cobbett

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

Quotes by William Boyd

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in...

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Quotes by William Blackstone

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Quotes by William Allingham

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

Quotes by William Ames

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

Quotes by William Barclay

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.

Quotes by William Barclay

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

Quotes by Willard Wigan

I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

Quotes by Willard Wigan

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

Quotes by Will Oldham

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

Quotes by Will Packer

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Quotes by Will Rogers

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Quotes by Will Rogers

There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

Quotes by Will Ferrell

I feel like I've always been a hard worker - working too much on things that I don't need to work on. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, but I still feel like there's this attainable perfection, which doesn't exist.

Quotes by Will Forte

My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families...

Quotes by Will Hobbs

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.