Top 100 We Are Nothing Quotes
#1. Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)
Friedrich Holderlin
#2. Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
Jack Kornfield
#3. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all ... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
Luis Bunuel
#4. We are nothing more than our stories and who we love. What we pass on, how we exist ... it's having people remember who we are. We're terrible at that in this world. At remembering. At passing it on.
Carrie Ryan
#5. We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.
Cyril Connolly
#6. Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
Rudyard Kipling
#9. Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.
Josemaria Escriva
#10. We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#11. We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
Michel De Montaigne
#12. We are nothing more than a dot amongst the billions of organisms on the Hillis plot
Soroosh Shahrivar
#13. Words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.
Dee Brown
#14. The time has come for us to admit our insignificance by making discoveries in the infinite unexplored cosmos. Only then shall we realize that we are nothing but ants in the vast state of the universe. And yet our future and our opportunities lie in the universe, where gods promised they would.
Erich Von Daniken
#15. we are nothing but pencil in the hands of the creator.
Mariam
#16. Without him, we are nothing, but the paradox is that we, the figments of another mind, will outlive the mind that made us, for once we are thrown into the world, we continue to exist forever, and our stories go on being told, even after we are dead.
Paul Auster
#17. We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
Abbas Kiarostami
#18. Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.
Chuck Palahniuk
#20. I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.
Frans De Waal
#21. We are nothing.
- Tomorrow we may be die.
We are nothing.
- You and me.
Jack Kerouac
#22. Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we profess, and the nature of our employment.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
#23. Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#25. Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Bjork
#26. There are some cultures that teach that we are nothing. There are others that teach that we are everything. The Jewish view is that we are half and we need to open ourselves to another if we are to become whole.
Helen Alvare
#27. We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. Memories make us who we are," he said. "Without them, we are nothing.
Melissa Grey
#29. We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams.
We are only what might have been ...
Charles Lamb
#30. It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust. A
Justin Cronin
#31. People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.
Haruki Murakami
#32. It's tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared to the simple fact of existence, to the power of life and how it hangs on, we are nothing.
Raymond E. Feist
#33. If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us.
R. Scott Bakker
#34. In the circle of successful living, prayer is the hub that holds the wheel together. Without our contact with God we are nothing. With it, we are 'a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor.
Conrad Hilton
#35. Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
E.F. Schumacher
#36. There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
Herman Melville
#37. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.
Peter De Vries
#40. We are nothing if we are not the sum total of our physique and the history of the actions of our physique
that we carry with us in body and in memory. (Body - Michael McClure)
Theodore Roszak
#41. I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead flesh, at all the stories that are now forever silenced.
Carrie Ryan
#42. Creation is the product of synchronizing our energy with the universe. Once we experience the whole and recognize it, we become aware that we are nothing but the Divine Creative Force.
Freydoon Rassouli
#43. But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?
Dan Ariely
#44. God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
Martin Luther
#45. Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don't even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn't mine: it's me.
Fernando Pessoa
#46. We are nothing mankind is all
Ayn Rand
#47. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.
Alexander Anderson
#48. We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.
Martin Luther
#49. Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life's uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.
T. Davis Bunn
#50. Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.
Betty Eadie
#51. Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.
N.D. Wilson
#52. We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.
Terry Goodkind
#53. If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.
Nic Pizzolatto
#54. We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.
Anne Bishop
#55. Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. Not one thing we've done changes that we are his. That he created us and loves us with a love more fierce and loyal than any we will ever know. He isn't looking for perfection. He's looking for humble hearts that know we are nothing without his lavish grace.
Melanie Shankle
#57. Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?
Marilyn L. Rice
#58. Every encounter ids there to know who we are-nothing is wasted.
Tracy McMillan
#59. What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might claim this a meaningless question: that we are nothing without our consciousness.When it rests so do we
-Railsea by China Mieville
China Mieville
#60. The day we put an end to believing in hope will be the day we stop existing, for without hope, we are nothing.
Kale Lawrence
#61. The sun rises over the Grand Canyon, igniting rocks that have been there for two billion years before we were born and will likely remain two billion years after we're gone. My heart aches with the cruel and unimaginable beauty of it. We are nothing. We are everything.
Sarah Ockler
#62. To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.
Michel De Montaigne
#63. We must confess that we are "nothing else but sin," for no confession short of this will be the whole truth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#64. If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing
John Wooden
#65. I'd once heard that we are nothing but our stories. Forget the blood and bones and genes and cells. They're not what we are. We are, rather, our stories. We are an accumulation of experiences that we have fashioned into our own grand, sweeping narrative.
Ken Ilgunas
#66. Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.
Dennis Overbye
#67. We are nothing more than distractions for each other, and distractions get you killed. But my hands close over his, our fingers lacing, until our bones are woven together. The fire is dying, flames reduced to embers. But Cal is still here. He will never leave me.
Victoria Aveyard
#68. Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.
Karen Marie Moning
#69. It's good that you feel bad,' she said, after some thought. Not much thought, obviously, but some. 'If you felt nothing, it would mean there is no love, no passion. And we are nothing without passion.
Hugh Laurie
#70. What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings ... we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.
Michio Kaku
#71. We are nothing but a few atoms arranged in an intricate organized way.
Debasish Mridha
#72. We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.
Clive Barker
#73. The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat
I just don't think about it.
Robin Green
#74. We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.
Ayn Rand
#75. We are nothing but space dust, trying to find its way back to the stars.
David Jones
#76. In the age of media, we are nothing but minds waiting to be filled, emotions waiting to be manipulated.
D.T. Max
#77. In the Big Equation we are nothing - Except to each other.
Peter Rumens
#78. We are nothing more than the sum of our memories and experiences
Michael Scott
#79. The sooner that Layla understands that we are nothing but the sum of that which we endure, the better.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#81. Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.
Jeff Lindsay
#82. Infinite regression is limitless, without it we are nothing.
Solange Nicole
#83. No matter where you go, no matter what you touch, there is cancer and syphilis. It is written in the sky; it flames and dances, like an evil portent. It has eaten into our souls and we are nothing but a dead thing like the moon.
Henry Miller
#84. Hope is the lifeblood of revolution. Without it, we are nothing but ash, waiting for the wind to take us.
Samantha Shannon
#85. Time is ever flowing and changing around us. It's the fabric of the universe, and we are nothing- only single drops in the grand ocean of time.
Ethan Cross
#86. What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.
Jens Voigt
#87. We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.
Subcomandante Marcos
#88. Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.
Salman Rushdie
#89. Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,
Eric Kandel
#90. We are everything and we are nothing. We are a forgotten moment. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. We just think we do. That's the illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
Cormac McCarthy
#92. After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
Sylvia Plath
#93. Hope is a critical thing. Without it, we are nothing. Hope shapes the will. The will shapes the world. I
Karen Marie Moning
#94. The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing.
Jon Anderson
#95. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,
N.D. Wilson
#96. Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.
Nancy Werlin
#97. Meantime, when once we know from nothing still
Nothing can be create, we shall divine
More clearly what we seek: those elements
From which alone all things created are,
And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
Lucretius
#98. Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
Majel Barrett
#99. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#100. Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
