Top 54 All For Naught Quotes
#2. I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.
Rashida Jones
#3. Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.
Samuel Beckett
#6. You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads and lasses
Scott Lynch
#7. He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
Torquato Tasso
#8. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!
Herman Melville
#9. Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading, it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
#11. For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.
Frank Sinatra
#12. I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.
Karen Hawkins
#13. In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Sophie Swetchine
#14. In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
Baha'u'llah
#15. I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#16. Cease these sweet words," I protested. "You seek to bend me to your will, but it will not work. Your flattery is naught to me but wind!
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
Clifford D. Simak
#18. She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.
Sharon Kay Penman
#19. Notice those gorgeous homes that represent happiness, glory and domination; they are naught but caverns of misery and distress.
Kahlil Gibran
#20. Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice. Abide in peace in the presence of God Who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and Who permits them. Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were naught.
Francois Fenelon
#21. Man's works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught.
John Sung
#22. All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.
Gamaliel
#23. Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal more absurdly wasted.
Walter Scott
#24. Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a formal embodiment of a moral code, not as a free-standing substitute for it.
Mark Steyn
#25. Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.
Vanna Bonta
#26. If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!
Bill Munson
#27. So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
Kabir
#28. O, the things we kill for our dreams, forgetting all the while we shall wake up to find them naught but dust and ash!
What fools we are to pretend that when we walk to war, we do not bring our loved ones with us.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#29. Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile.
Nancy E. Turner
#30. She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.
Lynn Coady
#31. I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.
Diana Gabaldon
#33. She wanted to buckle, lie on her side and gasp like an eviscerated fish. She held her breath against it, but her mouth parted. She cared naught for living in the moment, but apparently her body was sensible. It wanted to breathe.
Julie Anne Long
#34. Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
William Blake
#35. To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
Leonora Speyer
#36. Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught?
William Shakespeare
#37. You do not see the painting in the attic
The maggots on skin that tear.
The beauty is a trick.
Narcissus - promise naught but air...' ~ Dorian Gray
Stella Coulson
#38. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
William Shakespeare
#39. True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.
Lloyd Alexander
#40. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#42. Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#43. Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#44. None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
Edith Hamilton
#45. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
Charles Studd
#46. Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last
It runs as runs the time.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#47. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.
Joshua Romqn
#48. If she tried to speak, it would all come out: Her pain, her fear. Her anger. Her tears. And then her efforts to be strong for the boy would have been for naught. So she kept it in, a dam against a raging river.
James Dashner
#49. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
John Henry Newman
#50. Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
George Eliot
#51. The Infinite keeps naught save Love, for it is in its own likeness.
Kahlil Gibran
#52. Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.
Robert Greene
#53. The past is all patterns, and those patterns remain beneath our feet, even as the stars above reveal their own patterns - for the stars we gaze upon each night are naught but an illusion from the past.
Steven Erikson
#54. Virtue can have naught to do with ease ... It craves a steep and thorny path.
Michel De Montaigne
