Nobody Quotes

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Karl Lagerfeld
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
Karl Lagerfeld

Herman Melville
“I would prefer not to.”
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

Virginia Woolf
“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

Rick Riordan
“The Cyclops was about to roll the stone back into place, when from somewhere outside Annabeth shouted, "Hello, ugly!"

Polyphemus stiffened. "Who said that?"

"Nobody!" Annabeth yelled.

That got exactl;y the reaction she'd been hoping for. The monster's face turned red with rage.

"Nobody!" Polyphemus yelled back. "I remember you!"

"You're too stupid to remember anybody," Annabeth taunted. "Much less Nobody."

I hoped to the gods she was already moving when she said that, because Polyphemus bellowed furiously, grabbed the nearest boulder (which happened to be his front door) and threw it toward the sound of Annabeth's voice. I heard the rock smash into a thousand fragments.

To a terrible moment, there was silence. Then Annabeth shouted, "You haven't learned to throw any better, either!"

Polyphemus howled. "Come here! Let me kill you, Nobody!"

"You can't kill Nobody, you stupid oaf," she taunted. "Come find me!"

Polyphemus barreled down the hill toward her voice.

Now, the "Nobody" thing would have confused anybody, but Annabeth had explained to me that it was the name Odysseus had used to trick Polyphemus centuries ago, right before he poked the Cyclops's eye out with a large hot stick. Annabeth had figured Polyphemus would still have a grudge about that name, and she was right. In his frenzy to find his old enemy, he forgot about resealing the cave entrance. Apparently, he did even stop to consider that Annabeth's voice was female, whereas the first Nobody had been male. On the other hand, he'd wanted to marry Grover, so he couldn't have been all that bright about the whole male/female thing.

I just hoped Annabeth could stay alive and keep distracting him long enough for me to find Grover and Clarisse.”
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

Erik Pevernagie
“Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that strikes randomly. The only truth is that nobody is going to make it out alive. We are all living on probation and our expiry date is indefinite. ( “Living on probation” )”
Erik Pevernagie

Kami Garcia
“Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living
Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving
Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares
Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares
Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains
No Nobody knows nothing
All that remains are remains”
Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

Charles Bukowski
“as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for any individual
upon this earth (or
anywhere else
they might
escape to).

all you can do
is maybe grab
ten lucky minutes
here
or maybe an hour
there.

something
is working toward you
right now, and
I mean you
and nobody but
you.”
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Dandi Daley Mackall
“I am Nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.”
Dandi Daley Mackall, Love Rules

Rick Riordan
“Polyphemus stiffened. "Who said that?"

"Nobody!" Annabeth yelled.

That got exactly the reaction she'd been hoping for. The monster's face turned red with rage.

"Nobody!" Polyphemus yelled back. "I remember you!"

"You're too stupid to remember anybody," Annabeth taunted. "Much less Nobody.”
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

Lauren Oliver
“I'm a nonperson, a shadow, a ghost. Even before the accident I'm not sure that I was a whole person - that's what I'm realizing now. And I'm not sure where the damage begins.”
Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

Amor Towles
“The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes”
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Love is the cage and the cage is closed and the door is locked and nobody’s home.”
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Toba Beta
“There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Noel Langley
“Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.”
Noel Langley, The Wizard of Oz Screenplay

Jenny Valentine
“I thought about having a proper room,
breathing life into it, and nobody minding.”
Jenny Valentine, Broken Soup

Mary Elizabeth Summer
“When you can be anybody, you become nobody”
Mary Elizabeth Summer, Trust Me, I'm Lying

Mehmet Murat ildan
“What you do when nobody is there is your true you!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

David Almond
“Nobody. Mr nobody. Mr bones and mr had enough and mr arthur itis. Now get out and leave me alone.”
David Almond, Skellig
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Santosh Kalwar
“People are funny. I don't get people like I don't get most things. I get myself, but not them. You would've thought that because I was a person if I got myself, I would get them. But nobody seems to get each other, and everybody seems to get me even less.”
Santosh Kalwar, The Society In Opposition To Everything

Viktor Dyk
“Nejmenuji se; jsem nikdo. Jsem hůř než nikdo, jsem krysař.”
Viktor Dyk, Krysař

Seneca
“Nobody believed he was really quite born” - a proverb for a nobody (referring to Claudius)”
Seneca, Apocolocyntosis

“Givers need to realise that nobody was born to give without receiving. As givers give, they should also learn how to receive.”
ThandazoPerfectKhumalo

“Nobody is as bad as they think,
not as good as it looks.”
Augusto Branco

Dan Desmarques
“The worst mistake everyone makes is to analyze their self-image through the reflections the world mirrors because the world will never ever mirror something that is equal or better than what you show but always inferior. People don't feel comfortable near individuals that make them feel bad unless they want something or admire them, which is often not the case because of envy and resentment. Consequently nobody will ever show you your best qualities. They will hide them from you by never telling them to you. Instead, they will reflect back at you your mistakes and insecurities. When you don't want to fight, people insult you, when you are being polite, people disrespect you, and when you ask questions, people take the opportunity to make you feel stupid. Nobody will ever show you the real you. As a matter of fact it is more comfortable for them to believe who you are is all you can be.”
Dan Desmarques

Marcel Pagnol
“Ah, yes, it's the Soubeyrans...Three mad, three hanged, and me all alone with a no-good leg....And nobody after me...Nobody, nobody, nobody...”
Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs

Aleksandra Weretelnik
“I should have asked for the direction before I drove us both into insanity.”
Aleksandra Weretelnik, Nobody Has More of Me

Aleksandra Weretelnik
“I think I forgot to mention I have no love I only have fear.”
Aleksandra Weretelnik, Nobody Has More of Me

Sarah J. Maas
“Congratulations on your promotion.' She shook her head. 'Cassian the courtier. I never thought I'd see the day.

Feyre snickered. But Nesta's eyes slid to him, surprised. He said to her, if only to beat her to it, 'Still a bastard-born nobody, don't worry.'

Nesta's lips thinned.”
Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

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