Nothing Ever Enough Quotes

#1. Nothing I can do would ever make my heart worthy enough to share a love with yours.

Colleen Hoover

#2. Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Lillian Hellman

#3. Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Julia Cameron

#4. How can you tell a man there's nothing to do? I can't imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it for mankind and don't worry about the rest. There's so much to do that a lifetime won't be enough, if you look around attentively.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies.

Nathanael West

#6. Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

Arianna Huffington

#7. But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat would ever importune.

Muriel Barbery

#8. What does a Siren live for, Shae? Herself. Her wants, her needs. The attention that she gets. But a Siren is never fulfilled. Never complete. Nothing is ever enough. Until one falls in love.

Leah Alvord

#9. And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?

Emil Cioran

#10. Nothing will ever be enough to satisfy the black hole in our hearts.

Soman Chainani

#11. You are nothing like the others. You aren't like anyone I've ever met. I swear it. Now that I've had a taste of you, no one else will ever be enough for me. I need you...only you. Alex, you have my heart.

Brenda Huber

#12. His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison ... [Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid.

Payne Best

#13. Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn't ironic in the end.

Gregory Maguire

#14. Nothing's wrong. I just can't ever seem to do enough.'
'Enough for who? Mom and Dad? You have to get over that. You're never going to be happy until you live your own life.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself ... Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

Elisabeth Elliot

#16. Nothing is ever quite enough. No matter who you are, there's always something more to be had, which could be yours if only you were someone else.

Claire North

#17. I'd like to have enough time and quiet
To think about absolutely nothing,
To not ever feel myself living,
To only know myself in others' eyes, reflected.

Al Berto

#18. When everything is available, nothing is ever enough.

Emma Woolf

#19. Nothing is ever good enough," he said. He combed my hair with his fingers. "I feel like I'm putting rags on porcelain. I barely tolerate the things you do wear.

C.L.Stone

#20. Nothing ever stayed the same. There was no force in this world strong enough to withstand the march of time.

Sam J. Charlton

#21. Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

Joy Williams

#22. Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.

Carroll Smith

#23. If nothing I say sparks any thoughts or identification, it's possible you're taking too much medication. If it's the greatest talk you've ever heard, you're not taking enough.

Mark Vonnegut

#24. 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 look for anything else.

Robert Preston

#25. Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. And for the rest, I remember little enough. Except that we were happy, and healthy, and in love.
It didn't last. Nothing worth having ever does. But it was the happiest time of my young life.

Christian Cameron

#27. Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

Richard Carlson

#28. me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living.

Christie Golden

#29. The spiritual malady that we speak of so often in recovery circles requires a spiritual solution. Nothing else will ever be enough and nothing else will last.

Marta Mrotek

#30. He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

#31. God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.

Julian Of Norwich

#32. Shit," he rasped. "Too much. This is too much."
Too much what? It wasn't enough, as far as she was concerned. "I like touching you."
"No one ever touches me." He took a deep, shuddering breath that somehow sounded ... pained, and not in a good way. "Nothing but the wind and rain ever does.

Larissa Ione

#33. She's not extravagant or greedy, she tells herself: all she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money, so that nobody and nothing could get close enough to harm her.

Margaret Atwood

#34. My heart was beating like mad even as I felt it breaking in two. It was too much, not enough, everything I'd ever wanted and nothing I could have. Could a person die from this?

T. Torrest

#35. Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. He had sacrificed so much
And now? What if not even all that was enough to quiet that voice ... the voice that said, 'You're not worthy, you don't deserve it, nothing you do will ever be enough.

Jennifer Weiner

#37. Go down deep enough into darkness and nothing's ever the same,

Terry Hayes

#38. Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough ...

Charlaine Harris

#39. Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

Matthew Crow

#40. Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

Alber Elbaz

#41. The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.

Buddhadasa

#42. He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

Charles Dickens

#43. Nothing has ever been enough for you, nor will it be. You're trying to matter to yourself. Because you're broken inside. Because you hate what you are.

Pierce Brown

#44. Maybe my time's running out, but at least I'm living. And if that's what it is for you, being here inside where nothing ever happens, where you think you're safe, then stay. Stay right here and you let me know how that works for you.
Bacause I'm gessing it'll never be enough.

John Corey Whaley

#45. Nothing is ever enough.

Daisy Whitney

#46. As
calmly as she could, she turned away from the cop who was interviewing her and walked toward him.
He grabbed her fast enough, hard enough to knock the breath out of her. Nothing had ever felt so
safe. "I was hoping you'd come. I was really hoping."
"Did you get banged up any?

Nora Roberts

#47. The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

Barry Hughart

#48. I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

Joe Budden

#49. I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

Patricia Hampl