“I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.”

“I am nothing but I must be everything.”

Karl Marx book Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“(…) I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. (…) It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is not afraid of no thing. On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

“I know that you have nothing. That is why I ask you for everything. So that you will have everything.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.”

Whitney Houston (1963–2012) American singer, actress, model, and record producer

“I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

“Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”

Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) English illustrator and author

“I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer