Top 100 Nothing Left Quotes
#1. All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.
William Stafford
#2. There was a brilliant flash of white, then darkness. Four seconds later, there was nothing left of Crow Daddy but his clothes.
Stephen King
#3. But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.
Elizabeth Wein
#4. Torture, after all, is inconspicuous; all it needs is water, a piece of wood and a loud voice. It takes place in squalid rooms, dirty back yards and basements, and there is nothing left to preserve when it is over.
Eric Lomax
#5. I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.
Bill Dixon
#6. Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all! ... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."
Vivien Leigh
#7. Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run dry, there's nothing left, not a demon nor a monster and one final prayer for death. So, laugh demon. Laugh that arrogant laugh of your and remember I beat you to it.
Alexander Anderson
#8. He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read.
- Guido Brunetti
Donna Leon
#9. Stories don't like to end when you want them to, do they? Loose ends aren't easy to snip with scissors or tuck inside a hem. They tempt you. They want you to keep pulling until there is nothing left to keep you warm.
Jan Ellison
#10. He was not afraid. Not any more. Fear had died on the tree, as Shadow had died. There was no fear left, no hatred, no pain. Nothing left but essence.
Neil Gaiman
#11. Healing your wounds will hurt, so cry.
Cry your pretty little heart out until you have nothing left to shed, that's how beauty is grown;
through the darkest of our days we become the light.
Nikki Rowe
#12. When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.
Ernie J Zelinski
#13. We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.
Jodi Picoult
#14. Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.
Robert Greene
#15. There's no winning for us. We're screwed. We were born into a system we don't agree with, and we got caught. Here, out there, it doesn't matter. There's nothing left for us.
Richelle Mead
#16. Sweet, there is nothing left to say
But this, that love is never lost
Oscar Wilde
#18. I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
John D. MacDonald
#19. Hook up with you?" He chuckled. "Rainbow? I'd spread you wide open and consume your soul. You'd have nothing left to give to another man.
Kenya Wright
#20. I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
Caitlyn Jenner
#21. The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
William Hazlitt
#22. I poked at the white paper bag. There was nothing left inside. Just like me: a clean crisp outside and nothing at all on the inside.
Jeff Lindsay
#24. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
Viktor E. Frankl
#25. I've always know who should be leading this resistance. Someone who's got nothing left to lose and everything to gain. Someone no longer afraid of anyone? Should be me.
Tahereh Mafi
#26. Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.
Haruki Murakami
#27. Each time it would hurt less, and afterward she would love Lyon less, until one day there would be nothing left - no hurt, and no love. She
Jacqueline Susann
#28. With temerity and defiance, obstinance and patience, she chipped away at every hard edge of me until there was nothing left but the truths I feared. The bent and broken.
K. Bromberg
#29. Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .
Stephen King
#31. I have waited hundreds of years for this moment, for your power, for this chance. I have earned it with loss and with struggle. I will have it, Alina. Whatever the cost."
"There will be nothing left," I whispered.
Leigh Bardugo
#32. It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.
Peggy Guggenheim
#33. Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence, as it's ending,
Like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel
Like there's nothing left of me?
Demi Lovato
#34. He thought about how love could move you in ways you wouldn't have imagined, one foot in front of the other, even when you thought you had nothing left inside.
Alice Hoffman
#35. Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.
Janet Flanner
#36. The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. There's nothing left worth saying.
Isaac Marion
#37. When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.
Maureen Howard
#38. Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.
Sara Teasdale
#39. This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.
Don Henley
#40. My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing left.
Victoria Chang
#41. There was nothing left of Earth. They had leeched away the last atoms of its substance. It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable metamorphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the infant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.
Arthur C. Clarke
#42. The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Izaak Walton
#43. Suffering breaks us until there's nothing left but gentleness
John Geddes
#44. Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away. The memories will disappear and there will be nothing left.
Henning Mankell
#45. What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.
Madeleine L'Engle
#46. I started to cry. And I looked up and saw the bleak pines by the bleak mills of Roanoke Rapids with one final despair, like the despair of a man who has nothing left to do but leave the earth forever.
Jack Kerouac
#47. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?
Jodi Picoult
#48. Write until you have nothing left to say and then stop writing. Focus on content and quality rather than word count.
Gudjon Bergmann
#49. As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer
exhaust all possibilities. I had to come to it on my knees. Only when there was truly nothing left, was I able to become a writer.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#50. There's nothing left of my hometown in Kentucky. All those small and mid-sized towns and cities in the U.S. are just about malls around the edges and suburbs. That was definitely a loss, because everything just gets homogenized. You can't tell where you are, it's all the same.
Richard Hell
#51. Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
Thomas Sowell
#52. Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#53. I know from experience Dev, purposely breaking a man and leaving him with nothing left to live for can be a very dangerous thing.
-Moe
Ashley Jade
#54. I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.
Suzanne Collins
#55. This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over.
Emery Lord
#56. Immediately i felt my body crumbling, shaking so fast that the very atoms of my being seemed to dissolve, and then i was dissolving too, my emotions shattering me, unitl there was nothing left of me but silver dust- and a final longing stare of awe,of passion, of love.
Kailin Gow
#57. We had been so unlucky. By the time we had finally learnt to read properly, there had been nothing left for us to read.
Dai Sijie
#58. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Melissa Bank
#59. All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.
Bruce Lee Bond
#60. When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.
Jake Pitts
#61. Simple people have nothing left to hide,
but themselves.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
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#62. I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place.
Rhett Akins
#63. Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
Sydney Smith
#64. When there is really nothing left to do or believe, except to remember, walking helps retrieve the absolute simplicity of presence, beyond all hope, before any expectation.
Frederic Gros
#65. I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.
Lennox Lewis
#66. What is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.
Zoe Heller
#67. The forces of internationalism, humanism and solidarity will have to be victorious, or soon there will be nothing left of the human race.
Andre Vltchek
#68. I love you too, I've always loved you," she said, finally. Then there was nothing left to tell, but the one word that made his dark eyes light up, brighter than any moon. "I always will, my Tigerlily.
Charlotte Stein
#69. There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight.
Rumi
#70. According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.
Matthieu Ricard
#71. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#72. You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.
Bryan Clay
#73. when we've lost a friend, when a dream has failed, when we seem to have nothing left in the world to make life beautiful - that's when God says, You're richer than you think. Elizabeth
Corrie Ten Boom
#74. When there's nothing left to save, there's nothing left to lose.
T.S. Welti
#75. When the shadows take you, there's nothing left to mourn.
Mander Ritzert
#76. And if there is nothing left of you but darkness, how can you not become a monster?
Alexander Gordon Smith
#77. I'll tell you this up front: The other dead man, the murder victim, was my brother. There's nothing left of him. There's only me, left to speak in his place, sitting in this bar, waiting for condolences no one's ever going to offer.
Kamel Daoud
#79. The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.
Rashida Jones
#80. Jealousy is such a potent threatening emotion. It doesn't just eat you alive - it eats you from within. It's venom that spreads in your bloodstream, polluting you, killing you. It corrodes you until there's nothing left.
Mia Asher
#81. Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.
Ani DiFranco
#82. You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.
Anthony Burgess
#83. There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
John Dewey
#84. There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.
Marya Hornbacher
#85. Someone can only fade away if there's nothing left for them. But there's me and you. We'll always be something strong enough to keep you going.
Calia Read
#86. You can't break something that's already broken. There's nothing left inside of me to kill.
Yolanda Olson
#87. You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.
Alicia Witt
#88. When people have nothing left to lose, and they've lost everything, they lose it.
Gerald Celente
#89. How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.
Don Feder
#91. But when he died, I saw
nothing. There was nothing left to see.
Sarah Ockler
#92. Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left.
Morgan Brittany
#93. Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn't slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there's nothing left. Then what?
Skyla Madi
#94. Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Don Johnson
#95. All this talking all the time, and the air fills up until there's nothing left to breathe.
Isaac Brock
#96. Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
Bernadette Roberts
#97. I'm a chalkboard that's been erased over and over again until there's nothing left but a haze of white dust. Before this I never understood how long an hour could take, how many ticks of the second hand are in a minute, how endless the space between seconds can be.
Sarah McCarry
#98. THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh ... And the same thing is happening to my generation.
Dambudzo Marechera
#99. You can't make someone your everything because when they are gone you have nothing left.
Kate McGahan
#100. When power is the only coin, they said, you have nothing left to sell but your soul.
John C. Wright
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