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Nothing Quotes (page 194)

What a strange demented feeling it gives me when I realize that I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head. Yoshida Kenko
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Progress means nothing to presence."
Progress means nothing to presence. Ursula K. Le Guin
A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly Marion Zimmer Bradley
Toska - noun /t-sk/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness."No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific,... Vladimir Nabokov
Love, how often that word came up in books over and over again. If you had wealth and health, and beauty and talent...you had nothing if you didn't have love. Love changed all that was ordinary into something giddy, powerful, drunken, enchanted. Virginia C. Andrews
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing..."
Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn Ernest Hemingway
He seems to read nothing but my books, and says his one desire is to 'follow in my footsteps'! But I have told him that they lead to terrible places. Oscar Wilde
Philip Stanhope quote: "In truth, whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well;..."
In truth, whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well; and nothing can be done well without attention. Philip Stanhope
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing..."
...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. William Shakespeare
During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you’d die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you’re thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they’re doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort. Chuck Palahniuk
Richard Adams quote: "to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of..."
...to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of dying? Richard Adams
Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die. Chuck Palahniuk
Snoopy: So this is the last day of the year. Another complete year gone by and what have I accomplished this year that I haven't accomplished every other year? Nothing! (He smiles.) How consistent can you get? Charles M. Schulz

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