Top 100 Meant Nothing Quotes
#1. I was sorting through my mother's things. All the letters from friends had to go. I don't know why she kept them, and now they meant nothing to anybody alive. Each generation flushes the toilet for the last.
Lucy Ellmann
#2. I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything.
A.L. Jackson
#3. Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)
Shimon Peres
#4. Look at me and tell me it meant nothing to you, and I will let you go.
Sylvain Reynard
#5. The negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative
Thomas Hardy
#6. He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.
Richard O'Brien
#8. Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.
Emerson Hough
#9. Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.
Ellen Hopkins
#10. History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity.
Steven Erikson
#11. Then, in the dark hour before dawn, sirens blared. They were announcing departures for a world that now and forever meant nothing to me.
Albert Camus
#12. R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".
Ambrose Bierce
#13. This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning,
Marlon James
#14. A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
Andre Malraux
#15. I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.
Emily Giffin
#16. Love means never to have to say, "That hooker meant nothing to me" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy
E.J. Eisman
#18. She protected me. We had the souls of each other. We loved in some realm where the natural and the preternatural meant nothing.
Anne Rice
#19. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.
Ernest Hemingway,
#20. If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.
Robert Brooks
#21. If you're honest all the time for ten years, but then tell one lie, those ten years have meant nothing. Your integrity is lost." "So,",
C.J. Petit
#22. Wilkie got a bigger popular vote than FDR did, which of course meant nothing but it scared FDR. Hell,
Harry Homewood
#23. Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers' status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.
Mark Fuhrman
#24. This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else - every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss - has meant nothing.
Lauren Oliver
#25. Yeah, I cut class ... I got a D.
Cause History meant nothing to me
Except a definite nap.
That's why I always sat in the back.
Mike G
#26. Judge spoke in a pained whisper. "I fucked up, Duke. I tossed him aside like he meant nothing. Now he wouldn't take me back if I begged." "You sure?" Duke exhaled a cloud of smoke. "Have you even tried?" Judge steepled his hands in front of him and listened to what Duke had to say.
A.E. Via
#27. No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine
Liane Moriarty
#28. For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. Love had meant nothing to him but sawdust and cinders.
Virginia Woolf
#30. I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home.
Robert Goolrick
#31. A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.
Gene Wolfe
#32. He was big ... all over. The lioness in her purred, and she was disgusted with the animal. Looks were not everything. So what if he looked like a sex god? That meant nothing. Oh, it means a lot. A body like that, I can ride him like the stallion he is. Stupid cat. You
Milly Taiden
#33. To Rickover the titles and organization charts meant nothing; only the realities of responsibility mattered.45
U.S. Government
#35. But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them.
Lesley Howarth
#36. The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
Kim Novak
#37. I wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.
Anne Rice
#38. I went upstairs to my room. Momentarily I felt a sense of calm, almost acceptance. Rest beyond the river. I knew now what that meant. It meant Nothing. It meant only silence forever.
Margaret Laurence
#39. His experience of women was great enough for him to be aware that the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative; and it was little enough for him not to know that in the manner of the present negative there lay a great exception to the dallyings of coyness.
Thomas Hardy
#40. Flattery from a man who displayed no common sense or self-control, much less reverence for God, meant nothing to him. I
Lynn Austin
#41. Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.
Agatha Christie
#43. I looked her up and down. She wouldn't meet my eyes. I didn't recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else.
Yasmina Khadra
#44. Only then did she pause to read Juniper's card.Professor James Moriarty. She slipped it into her reticule without another thought. The name meant nothing to her, except that he looked more like a James than an Arnold.
Emma Jane Holloway
#45. Once again, I had the sensation that everyone else was working off a fully rehearsed script, and I was being asked to improvise. "I just meant - nothing," I said, hoping for a clue on what my line was supposed to be.
Jeff Lindsay
#46. The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
Michael Shaara
#47. I tried to pretend that kiss meant nothing. I tried to pretend she didn't have permanent residence in my dreams. I tried to pretend I wasn't using her to feel wanted, and I tried to pretend I wasn't dying to see her again - I became the great pretender.
Tali Alexander
#48. What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so ... simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting.
Debbie Macomber
#49. That casual kiss on my cheek would have meant nothing up until recently, I realized I was in love with him. Not that, 'I love you, man,' type of love. Nope. I was ass over teacup in love with my best friend. The 'let's get married and grow old together' type of love.
Summer Michaels
#50. Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
Willa Cather
#51. Barry had done it with her, the girl I loved, and it had meant nothing to him; Tanya would die and no one would care; and there were billions of bodies alive on earth and they would all be buried and ground into dirt; and Picasso was a master at age sixteen and I was a perfect shit.
James Franco
#52. Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#53. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Was it really? Better to have trusted and been deceived? Better to have shared your soul with another human being, only to find that honor meant nothing to him?
Kathryn Johnson
#54. That this woman talking to him had large, melting brown eyes and long brown hair the color of a doe's, on a face meant for an artist's canvas, all attached to a nifty little compact body that could tempt the gods meant nothing. She was insane.
Jill Shalvis
#55. We were merely observers, getting totally absorbed in some exciting movie, our palms all sweaty, only to find that, after the houselights came on and we exited the theater, the thrilling afterglow that coursed through us ultimately meant nothing whatsoever.
Haruki Murakami
#56. Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.
Ellen Read
#57. It was all for the best. I am an elf, and he is a human. Thomas is a Knight, and I am a Princess. His Knighthood meant nothing in this world. Though it did make me wonder what it meant in his. In his world, did Knights and Princesses fall in love? I doubted it.
Rae Z. Ryans
#58. By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.
Plato
#59. Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#60. Emma cursed the intensity of the faerie language- like meant nothing to them: They lived in a world of love or hate, scorn or adoration.
Cassandra Clare
#61. If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#62. Girls' night out was sacred, and that meant nothing with a penis was going to be within ten feet
Maya Banks
#63. This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.
Lee Child
#64. Unless you had a popular video on YouTube
or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.
Nicholas Sparks
#65. Her mother's words echoed through her head: love you. People threw them around so easily, as if they were nothing, as if they meant nothing.
Amy Zhang
#66. Wow, shit. Gotten us a place? I am gone. Over Dorcas Cantrell, a girl who convinced me in a one-minute phone
call that I meant nothing to her.
Tammara Webber
#67. Nothing hurts more than realising he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.
Anonymous
#68. Her self-respect had suffered a head-on collision with love, a clash that generally only ends one way. Love does not fight fair. In that moment her pride, the gut knowledge that she was right, even her sense of who she was, meant nothing, faced as she was with the prospect of being unloved. Faith
Frances Hardinge
#69. Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.
Edward Bunker
#70. He sounded genuine, but Myron knew that meant nothing. People were amazing liars.
Harlan Coben
#71. Maude meant nothing that she said. She knew how pretty she looked in furs. She was a rattle, not understanding her own bnoise; but the scholar hung upon her words, and believed them inspired, and did not know they were murmurings from a shell.
Ernest G. Henham
#72. Today is going to be a perfect, perfect day." Trina smiled and the waters of the stream continued to rush by, as if his words meant nothing.
James Dashner
#73. Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.
Fernando Pessoa
#74. Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.
Cassandra Clare
#75. Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
Maya Angelou
#76. But what I found out that summer ... was that I could swallow whatever hit me and let it sink as if nothing had happened. So I mimicked a game that meant nothing to me now, I was going through the motions, and then it looked as if what I was doing had a purpose, but it did not.
Per Petterson
#77. A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
Isaac
#78. I'd never seen anything more beautiful - even as I ran, gasping and screaming, I could appreciate that. And the last seven months meant nothing. And his words in the forest meant nothing. And it did not matter if he did not want me. I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.
Stephenie Meyer
#79. My pain is constant and sharp ... this confession has meant nothing
Bret Easton Ellis
#80. The attraction between them was incendiary, yet somehow twelve years ago she'd walked away from as if he meant nothing.
Katie Reus
#81. He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#82. If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about.
John Bonham
#83. I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it." The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.
Ernest Hemingway,
#84. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
John Marsden
#85. Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.
Rachel Reiland
#86. In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.
Alexis Korner
#87. Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
Caitlin Moran
#88. She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.
Liane Moriarty
#89. She had this amazing capacity to turn sadness into anger and anger into action, which meant nothing ever kept her down for long.
Ransom Riggs
#90. It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one.
Tana French
#91. It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. ( ... ) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.
David Millar
#92. But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
Dick Bruna
#93. Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
Patricia A. McKillip
#94. I may be a little fool,' retorted Miss Challoner, plucking up spirit, 'but at least I meant it for the best. While as for you, my lord, you meant nothing but wicked mischief right from the start.
Georgette Heyer
#95. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.
Lev Grossman
#96. It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness
and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.
Ayn Rand
#97. It was an unnatural time to be awake, ... It meant nothing good. He associated it with emergency, bereavement, conspiracy, flight; the sad skulk away at the end of a one-night affair.
Robert Harris
#98. I loved you . I cared for you when no one else did and you turned around ripped it up and throw it back at my fucking face like it meant nothing to you .
Dean Eloff
#99. But she would never forget Brodick ... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to her.
Julie Garwood
#100. I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods
Good and Evil.
Graham Greene
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