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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.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours...

Quotes by G. Willow Wilson

Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

Quotes by G. Willow Wilson

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

Quotes by Gabe Paul

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Quotes by Fritz Lang

I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.

Quotes by Future

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

Quotes by Frida Kahlo

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

Quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Quotes by Friedrich Engels

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.

Quotes by Freeman A. Hrabowski III

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.

Quotes by Frederick Soddy

He who defends everything defends nothing.

Quotes by Frederick the Great

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Quotes by Frederick Douglass

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has...

Quotes by Frederick Douglass

The most common way customer financing is done is you sell the customer on the product before you've built it or before you've finished it. The customer puts up the money to build the product or finish the product and...

Quotes by Fred Wilson

It gets me, physical comedy. There's nothing better than it.

Quotes by Freddie Fox

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.