The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done.
And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.
There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !
You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.
Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
There's no such thing as nothing.
Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
Nothing is more abstract than reality.
That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
I got nothing. Even the spies I'm spying on who are spying on other spies got nothing.
There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature. .