“In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair… the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr… 1893–1957

James Hillman (1926–2011) American psychologist

Source: Suicide and the Soul

“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

As quoted in The Truth in Words (2005) by Neal Zero

“Is feeling nothing the inevitable result of believing in nothing? …I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Life After God (1994)

“Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing.”

Seneca the Younger Medea

Original: (la) Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil.
Source: Tragedies, Medea (c. 50 CE), Line 163 (trans. A. J. Boyle)

“…even in the folly of youth we know that nothing lasts, but … even in that folly we are afraid that maybe Nothing will last, that maybe Nothing will last forever, and anything is better than Nothing.… So now, as another poet sings, That Fancy passed me by And nothing will remain; which, praise the gods, is a damned lie since, praise, O gods! Nothing cannot remain anywhere since nothing is vacuum and vacuum is paradox and unbearable and we will have nothing of it even if we would, the damned-fool poet's Nothing.”

William Faulkner book The Town

Gavin Stevens in Ch. 8
The two lines quoted — not altogether accurately — are from A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896), XVIII:<p>And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain.
The Town (1957)

“Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.”

Philip Roth book The Human Stain

Source: The Human Stain

“Only if men could see that they have nothing to do, nothing to claim, nothing to achieve in this already complete and blissful creation, they would begin to enjoy and also fulfil the purpose.”

Shantananda Saraswati (1934–2005) Hindu spiritual teacher

Good Company. The Study Society. 2009

“Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Variant: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

“Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing, which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Source: Knots Untied (1877), Ch. XVII: "The Fallibility of Ministers", p. 383

“Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

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