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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.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Quotes by Isaac Rosenberg

Nothing can justify war.

Quotes by Isaac Rosenberg

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

Quotes by Isaac Stern

I'll put mousse in my hair if I'm going out and want to look pretty, to build the volume. Otherwise, I just do nothing. I let it breathe.

Quotes by Isabeli Fontana

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

Quotes by Isaac Barrow

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a...

Quotes by Isaac Hayes

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Quotes by Irwin Shaw

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

Quotes by Irvin Kershner

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Quotes by Irvin S. Cobb

It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.

Quotes by Irvine Welsh

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Quotes by Irving Kristol

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Quotes by Irving Paul Lazar

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Quotes by Ira Glass

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

Quotes by Indya Moore

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

Quotes by Ingmar Bergman

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

My husband was a serial adulterer, and there was nothing I could do about it: no questions I could ask him, no argument I could have with him, no explanation he could give me or pleas he could make for...

Quotes by Ingrid Seward

I had always thought that meditation was for ladies who lunch and have nothing better to do but indulge in whatever the latest fad may be.

Quotes by Ingrid Seward

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Quotes by Immanuel Kant

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.