Quote: nothing matters much?

Question

Nothing matters much and some things dont matter at all. Please can anyone tell me where this quote comes from???

Answer 1

I never heard it before, and I don't think it's that great as a quotation, either.

However, there's is a much more famous quotation that's a little bit like it, from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.  

(Or the Book "Koheleth" in the Jewish scriptures, if you favor the Jewish scriptures over the Christian ones.)  

The Ecclesiastes and/or Koheleth quote (which is supposed to have been uttered by King Solomon), starts out

"Vanity of vanities, sayeth the Preacher;

All is vanity, and a striving after wind ..."

The book goes on at some length to discuss the futility of all existence and of all human endeavor, at least as King Solomon is supposed to have seen the matter.

Although there are plenty  Bible passages that are easy to find on the Web, put there by various people who hope to save your soul, this one is surprisingly hard to track down in its original form.  

This is probably because Ecclesiastes and/or Koheleth is a lot more pessimistic and "philosophical" than many books in the Bible.  

Also the writer of the book isn't obviously convinced that there is any kind of individual afterlife.  It's pretty easy to read the book as if it's saying that you live, you die, and that's the end of it.  The book doesn't dwell much, if at all, on Heaven and h**l.  

I don't remember that it says anything about any Messiah or any "savior" figure, either, which is perhaps why Christian evangelists don't include all of on their various web sites.

If you want a really bleak but well-written commentary on the supposed futility of life, get yourself a good English translation of the Bible -- I recommend the Revised Standard Version, myself -- and read Ecclesiastes for yourself.

Answer 2

‘Nothing matters much and very little matters at all’ i believe the Tory prime minister Arthur Balfour is supposed to have said it.

Answer 3

Probably what the first guy who answered said, but it sounds like Freddy Murcury a bit  (breaks in to song)

Nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really matters, nothing really matters to meeeeeeeee.

Thank you, I 'hank you.