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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's nothing unnatural in creation.

Quotes by Wadada Leo Smith

I see dog stories as an antidote to the dire news that nothing is ever going to get better.

Quotes by W. Bruce Cameron

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Quotes by W. C. Fields

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Quotes by W. C. Fields

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Quotes by W. C. Fields

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

Quotes by W. C. Fields

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Quotes by W. Edwards Deming

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

Quotes by W. Edwards Deming

Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

Quotes by W. Edwards Deming

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

Quotes by W. G. Sebald

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Quotes by Vladimir Putin

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Quotes by Vitruvius

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.