“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”

“Nothing lasts but nothing is lost. ”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.”
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

“If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

“I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and the others. Still with me are all the dead persons who I loved, all the friends who turned away, all the happy days that faded. I lost nothing but the illusion that everything could be mine forever.”

Miguel Sousa Tavares (1952) Portuguese writer

“Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.”

Greg Bear (1951) American writer best known for science fiction

“A world made to be lost, —
A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.”

William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman

“Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower