„There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.“

„I AM NOTHING. Nothing but a pale shape.“

—  Patrick Modiano, buch Missing Person

Missing Person (1978 )

„I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.“

—  Nikos Kazantzakis Greek writer 1883 - 1957

„I am nothing, and not even that.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Quelle: Fight Club

„The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.“

—  Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

„I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.“

—  Terence, Eunuchus

Act II, scene 2, 12, line 243.
Eunuchus

„I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.“

—  Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

Quelle: The Hundred Secret Senses

„I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.“

—  Audre Lorde writer and activist 1934 - 1992

„I am nothing, truth is everything.“

—  Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

„I am in the void. Nothing to hang on to.“

—  Bram van Velde Dutch painter 1895 - 1981

1960's

„I am nothing but I must be everything.“

—  Karl Marx, buch Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie

Quelle: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

„(…) I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. (…) It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is not afraid of no thing. On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. (…)“

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

Nothingness
Quelle: "I am That." P.88.

„Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

Quelle: Speak

„I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.“

—  Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831 - 1890

Recorded by a reporter after Sitting Bull's retreat to Canada after being defeated in the Black Hills War, originally published in the New York Herald on November 16, 1877. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 190.

„I am air and thought and can do nothing.“

—  Madeline Miller, buch The Song of Achilles

Quelle: The Song of Achilles

„“I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.’“

—  Christopher Paolini, buch Inheritance

Galbatorix
Inheritance (2011)

„Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.“

—  Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821

As quoted in The Story of World Progress (1922) by Willis Mason West, p. 433
Attributed

„I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.“

—  Jack Vance, Dying Earth

Quelle: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 3, "The Mountains of Magnatz"

„Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten“

—  John Wyndham, buch The Chrysalids

Quelle: The Chrysalids

„I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.“

—  Ford Madox Ford, buch The Good Soldier

Quelle: The Good Soldier