Nothing Now Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose…
— Jonathan Haidt
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For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the…
— John Bagot Glubb
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort…
— John Selden
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I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
— Glenda Jackson
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It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen…
— Maurice Sendak
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The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.
— Jonah Lehrer
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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
— Kabir
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It's the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no…
— Chris Hedges
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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I…
— Matthew Sweet
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An atheist chaplain would be the perfect vehicle for convincing wounded warriors that they should end their lives because there's nothing in the future and…
— Gordon Klingenschmitt
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The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have…
— Ezra Pound
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Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
— Paul Cezanne
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I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now…
— Antonio Gramsci
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I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.
— Willard Wigan
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The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved…
— Jacques Maritain
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There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and…
— Susan Sontag
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She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
— Kim Edwards
Who Wrote These Nothing Now Quotes
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