Quotes about Nothing
In the beginning always was nothing. The novae exploding silently. In total darkness. The stars, the passing comets. Everything at best of alleged being. Black fires. Like the fires of hell. Silence. Nothingness. Night. Black Suns herding the planets through a universe where the concept of space was meaningless for want of any end to it. For want of any concept to stand it against.
- Cormac McCarthy
I had this dream. What dream. I had it twice. Well what was it. There was this big fire out on the dry lake. There aint nothin to burn on a dry lake. I know it. What happened. These people were burnin. The lake was on fire and they was burnin up. It's probably somethin you ate. I had the same dream twice. Maybe you ate the same thing twice. I dont think so.
- Cormac McCarthy
These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me. If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing, if they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing, if they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing. If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
- Walt Whitman
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, for that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring forth from the war emerging, a book I've made , the words of my book , nothing, the drift of it, everything . . . . -Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman
The Christian must hold that all created being, whether substance or accident, comes from nothing and therefore stands far below God's being in dignity;
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
- Johannes Tauler
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its not even time until it was
- William Faulkner
be.—Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
- William Faulkner
History is the nothing people write about a nothing.
- William Golding
An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.
- Leonard Ravenhill
I am nothing to you. You say I am wilderness. I am. Is that a tremble on your mouth, in your eye? Are you afraid? You should be.
- Toni Morrison