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Nothing Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy…
- Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that…
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
- I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
- The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has…
- What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
- Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.
- As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the…
- Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past…
- Cheating is easy. There's no swank to infidelity. To borrow against the trust someone has placed in you costs nothing at first. You get away…
- Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete…
- We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being…
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining…
- Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
- Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.
- He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness…
- Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of…
- Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I…
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman