God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
—Paul Valéry
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
—Paul Valéry
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
—Ellen DeGeneres
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
—Anatole France
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
—Paul Fussell
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
—Floyd Dell
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
—Dan Millman
We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.
—Jenny Han in It’s Not Summer Without You
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
—Peter Drucker
There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that . . . the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.
—Thomas Henry Huxley
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.
—Milan Kundera
Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.
—Leslie Nielsen
Nothing ever goes away.
—Barry Commoner
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
—Leonardo da Vinci