“Nothing lasts but nothing is lost. ”

“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

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

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

“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

“Loss is a defending human experience. Nothing in the physical world lasts forever. Memory of what has been lost ca be both ennobling and painful.”

Michael Hamilton Morgan (1951) American writer

“We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

“Memory. — It is a mirror, that retains, and retains forever. Nothing is lost in it, nothing is erased. But it can be tarnished. And then one sees nothing in it.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning…”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

“Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

“Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened.”

Osamu Dazai book The Setting Sun