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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.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Quotes by Robertson Davies

Trade is not the cause for unemployment. In fact, the biggest drivers for unemployment are innovation and increased productivity. It has nothing to do with trade.

Quotes by Roberto Azevedo

Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.

Quotes by Roberto Calvi

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Quotes by Robert Wilson Lynd

You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.

Quotes by Robert Zemeckis

What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you...

Quotes by Robert Wade

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.

Quotes by Robert Wagner

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Quotes by Robert South

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Quotes by Robert Southey

There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.

Quotes by Robert Staughton Lynd

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

Quotes by Robert Scheer

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Quotes by Robert Schumann

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do...

Quotes by Robert Shapiro

I'm always going on about how I could just eat Japanese food and nothing else until the day I die.

Quotes by Robert Sheehan

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to...

Quotes by Robert Preston

There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives. Using one of these people for the benefit of others uses him and benefits the others. Nothing more. What happens is that something is done to him...

Quotes by Robert Nozick

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

Quotes by Robert Orben

I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting. That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this.

Quotes by Robert Mundell

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Quotes by Robert Musil

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.