“I AM NOTHING. Nothing but a pale shape.”

“There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

“I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.”

Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) American Modernist writer, poet and artist

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

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

Terence Eunuchus

“Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“I am nothing, and not even that.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

“Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”

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

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist