“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.”

“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 (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

“It is, however, only in the nineteenth century that one sees men beginning to glory in their ignorance—for to proclaim oneself an agnostic means nothing else—and claiming to forbid others any knowledge to which they themselves have no access; and this marked one stage further in the intellectual decline of the West.”

René Guénon (1886–1951) French metaphysician

“Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“The mind is always asking you to do something over again, something you have already done so many times before. And every time you see that by doing it nothing is achieved. What else can madness be?”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

“Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!”

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.”

H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer

“If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever.”

Larry Niven (1938) American writer