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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.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Quotes by Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Quotes by Euripides

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Quotes by Euripides

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all...

Quotes by Eva Braun

Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.

Quotes by Eva Chen

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Quotes by Eugene Delacroix

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Quotes by Eugene Delacroix

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Quotes by Ethel Waters

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

Quotes by Etta James

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.

Quotes by Esther Williams

In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the...

Quotes by Ethan Canin

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

Quotes by Esperanza Spalding

There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.

Quotes by Estelle Morris

Ocampo is very dangerous because he has nothing to lose. I want a guy who's going to test me so the crowd gets its money's worth.

Quotes by Errol Spence Jr.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Quotes by Erwin Schrodinger

I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

Quotes by Ernie Harwell

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

Quotes by Ernie Harwell

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing...

Quotes by Ernie Pyle

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

Quotes by Ernst Mach

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put...

Quotes by Ernst Mach

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.