Nothing Quotes

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

In order to see a fish you must watch the water

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the “pecking order” of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, “See, I’ve done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!