We have nothing to live but life itself.

he was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering.

No one, it appeared to Barney, had anything to do now; the weight of empty time hung over them all.

people have enough to live by but nothing to live for;

i did not die, yet nothing of life remained.

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. What I had lived on no longer existed, and there was nothing left.

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink, and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfillment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have know what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guessed of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless. I had as it were lived, lived, and walked, walked, till I had come to a precipice and saw clearly that there was nothing ahead of me but destruction. It was impossible to stop, impossible to go back, and impossible to close my eyes or avoid seeing that there was nothing ahead but suffering and real death — complete annihilation.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

And die of nothing but a rage to live

If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

We did everything possible to keep up the spirits of the men, but it was exceedingly difficult because there was nothing for them to do.

There's not to reason why,
There's but to do and die

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.