Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
-- T. S. Eliot

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw

And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.
-- Robert Frost

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
-- Elias Canetti

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
-- Gertrude Stein

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
-- Denis Diderot

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
-- Russell Baker

The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are falling-what can be done? . . . Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being done-the organism is preparing to rest.
-- David Mamet

All things change, nothing is extinguished. . . . There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
-- Ovid

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
-- Erica Jong

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
-- Eug�ne Ionesco

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.
-- Zhang Jie

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning . . . I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
-- Ezra Pound

Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville's - deplorable waste of time, and something of temper. Nothing imparted - nothing acquired - talking without ideas - if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho! - and in this way half London pass what is called life.
-- Lord Byron