Top 100 Quotes About Being Nothing
#1. Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - Aristotle
Danielle LaPorte
#2. When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone
Bonnie Gillespie
#3. you only knew what bliss I found in being nothing you would not advise me how to live. When
Jalaluddin Rumi
#4. I dare say, my remark came from the professional feeling of there being nothing like leather.
[Mr. Hale
about books; reminding me of my statement that "there is nothing like holding a real book in your hands"]
Elizabeth Gaskell
#5. The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
Mary Oliver
#6. Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
Snoop Dogg
#7. Carl Jung put it this way: "The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." With
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#8. I am not at peace with myself; I am not always "something," and if for once I am "something," I pay for it by "being nothing" for months on end.
Franz Kafka
#9. You could see her thoughts swimming around in her eyes, like fish - some bright, some dark, some fast, quick, some slow and easy, and sometimes, like when she looked up where Earth was, being nothing but colour and nothing else.
Ray Bradbury
#10. There is great power in focusing on what you want ... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."
Robin Sharma
#11. Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
Henry Fielding
#12. What he called his own personal night was about the feeling of being nothing, of having no worth, of having spent himself in a war nobody cared about, and having given up everything that was important and good.
Stephen Hunter
#13. If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.
Rumi
#14. That righteous anger quickly sharpens into determination. Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#15. But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is,
With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased
With being nothing.
William Shakespeare
#16. Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.
Lorenzo Scupoli
#17. Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.
John Mayer
#18. Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!
Julia Alvarez
#19. A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.
Lysander Spooner
#20. Being nothing felt quite the same as being something. Maybe she had never been something at all.
Claire Legrand
#21. What kept me hammering away at it was the thought that to live my life as a human being, nothing is more important than being able to express myself.
Naoki Higashida
#22. I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.
Terence
#23. It is quite simple, being nothing more than a radium generator diffusing radio-activity in all directions to a distance of a hundred yards or so from the flier. Should
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#24. Zero is my spot in this world. And it's so appropriate to be nothing, and not all in a negative way, either. I like being nothing.
C.D. Reiss
#25. For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.
Philip Pullman
#26. Humanism is the affirmation of man as a free and responsible being. Nothing degrades man more than the proclamation of irresponsibility. Man is responsible, animals and things are not.
Alija Izetbegovic
#27. The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
Carl Jung
#28. There's nothing to give away. I get so exhausted being what people want me to be that when I'm on my own, I enjoy being nothing to no one. You have no idea how tiring it is always being someone else.
Andrea Speed
#29. My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.
Fernando Pessoa
#30. If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
Albert Camus
#31. The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this is entirely true) that the artist is like someone carrying a mirror in which everyone can look and recognize themselves, so that the person who carries the mirror ends up being nothing.
Christian Boltanski
#32. For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#33. There is nothing this confused world needs more, nothing that inspires a greater sense of well-being, nothing that has greater power to strengthen families than the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Sheri L. Dew
#34. I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
Kathy Acker
#35. The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.
Wallace Stevens
#36. Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#37. You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.
Joe Louis
#38. I want to be a human being, nothing more and nothing less ... I don't suppose we can ever stop hating each other, but why encourage that by keeping the old labels with their ready-made history of millennial hate?
Isaac Asimov
#39. My happiest moments are those when I think nothing, want nothing, and dream nothing, being lost in a torpor like some accidental plant, like mere moss growing on life's surface. I savour without bitterness this absurd awareness of being nothing, this foretaste of death and extinction.
Pessoa, Fernando
#40. We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can't help but be: a part of our world.
Carlo Rovelli
#41. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
#42. The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.
Shashi
#43. To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God's vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. Nothing is perfect. Therefore, being perfect is being nothing ... and that's a great way to lose weight.
Craig Benzine
#45. If you think the anima as being "nothing but" what you know about her, you have not the receptiveness of a listening attitude, and so she becomes "nothing but" a load of brutal emotions; you have never given her a chance of expressing herself, and therefore she has become inhuman and brutal.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#46. If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. A focused resume is a powerful resume. A resume that tries to be all things to all people ends up being nothing at all.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#49. The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John Dryden
#50. Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#51. Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
Isabelle Adjani
#52. A faint is one breath away from nothing. Only it is far worse than actually being nothing because the only thing left of you is the memory of having once been a something.
Rebecca Taylor
#53. The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.
Robin Sharma
#54. If something or someone is presented to us once, we will often dismiss it as being nothing more than happenstance. If that person or situation is presented twice, it is God slapping us in the face and telling us to pay attention. It is fate.
Scott Hildreth
#55. We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
Gautama Buddha
#56. It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.
Michael Kors
#57. Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.
Donald Norman
#59. A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.
Rosemary Daniell
#60. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#61. But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
Arianna Huffington
#62. The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#63. being meek and silent prevents social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking
Rory Miller
#64. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.
Laura Riding
#65. There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk
in fact, quite the contrary.
Heather King
#66. If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are still there, and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands. Everything in the world of Things and animals is filled with being, of which you are part.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#67. Deep within, every human being hoards a pitch-black riddle. The darkness of the iris is nothing other than the starless night, the darkness deep in the eye is nothing other than the darkness of the universe.
Lars Gustafsson
#68. You showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.
Sylvia Day
#69. If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#70. When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.
Pope John XXIII
#71. The minimalist path is not about getting rid of everything and owning nothing, it is about living an integrated life in which everything has meaning and value because it is about your way of being.
Ela Garrison
#72. I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.
Maya Rudolph
#73. Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.
Patrick O'Brian
#75. I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.
Tracie Thoms
#76. Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.
Milan Kundera
#77. Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.
Gene Tierney
#78. I wondered if that wasn't the answer to the mystery, countrywide. It wasn't that eating was so great-it wasn't-but that nothing was great. Eating being merely okay still put it head and shoulders above everything else that was decidedly less than okay.
Lionel Shriver
#79. There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented
that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.
Boris Pasternak
#80. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
Helen Fielding
#81. Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.
Lou Holtz
#82. If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That's the beauty of being a human being.
Sadhguru
#83. But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
Virginia Woolf
#84. Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.
James Dyson
#85. God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
J.G. Holland
#86. There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.
David G. McAfee
#87. The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out. Everything has something to do with something; nothing is divorced. It becomes an experience,a feeling or a aconglomeration of experiences ...
Keith Richards
#88. All that crap about time being a great healer is bullshit. Time heals nothing. Well, acne maybe.
Saurbh Katyal
#89. Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
Jamie Wyeth
#90. Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
Ronald Reagan
#91. Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
Adyashanti
#92. You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.
Carl Sandburg
#93. Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.
James C. Dobson
#94. The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.
Neel Burton
#95. There is nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but - being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle.
William Golding
#96. Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
Wanda Sykes
#97. When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#98. Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
Sherman Edwards
#99. It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.
Martin Lawrence
#100. There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.' That's not why I became an actress. That's what I find so funny: that you become an actor, and all of a sudden, everyone wants to know about you. But I didn't become an actor so I could show you me.
Margot Robbie
