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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 had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Quotes by Frank McCourt

When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.

Quotes by Frank McCourt

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

Quotes by Frank Miller

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the...

Quotes by Frank Miller

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Quotes by Frank Herbert

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Quotes by Frank Howard Clark

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.

Quotes by Frank Howard Clark

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Quotes by Frank Borman

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Quotes by Frank Bruno

A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors.

Quotes by Frank Butler

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Quotes by Frank Dane

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.

Quotes by Francoise Gilot

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Quotes by Frank A. Clark

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

Quotes by Francois Fenelon

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Quotes by Francois Fenelon

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.

Quotes by Francois Hollande

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When...

Quotes by Francois Hollande

When you're used to having nothing, the first time you have something, you get really focused. You know if you lose it, it may not be easy to get it back.

Quotes by Francis Ngannou

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

Quotes by Francis Parker Yockey

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to...

Quotes by Francis Quarles

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.