All there is

All that really remained was a stubborn stoicism:  and in that there was a certain pleasure.  In the very experience of the nothingness of life, phase after phase, étape after étape, there was a certain grisly satisfaction.  So that’s that!  Always this was the last utterance:  home, love, marriage....  So that’s that!  — And when one died, the last words to life would be:  So that’s that!

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

See also: Peggy. But, not nothing. Surely, not nothing. And, definitely not nothing - so, so good. Etc. etc. etc....