
„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 love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.“
— Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Quelle: The Hundred Secret Senses
— George II of Great Britain British monarch 1683 - 1760
Statement made in Hanover (1755), quoted in Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole (Cornell University Press, 2018), pp. 113–114
„I AM NOTHING. Nothing but a pale shape.“
— Patrick Modiano, buch Missing Person
Missing Person (1978 )
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
„I am nothing but I must be everything.“
— Karl Marx, buch Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie
Quelle: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
„Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.“
— Aubrey Beardsley English illustrator and author 1872 - 1898
In an interview with <i>The Idler</i> (1896), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 309
„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, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
„I am that one person
Who eats his breakfast,
Gazing at morning nothing.“
— Bashō Matsuo Japanese poet 1644 - 1694
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #174 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/174 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth)
Individual poems
Original: (ja) 朝顔に
我は飯食ふ
男かな
Original: (ja) asagao ni
ware wa meshi kû
otoko kana
— Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 5: 1922
„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 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"