Nada. Ello lo dice.  

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"Nada. Ello lo dice/Nada. Ello dirá" (English "Nothing. It says./Nothing. It will say") is the title of an etching[1][2] by Francisco Goya from the The Disasters of War series. It shows a corpse pushing up the lid of its tomb, on which is traced a single word: Nada.

The "nada" is commonly interpreted as a denial of the afterlife.

Robert Hughes says of the print that it "testifies that nothing is there ...: no Jesus, no angels, no eternal consciousness, no mercy, no redemption, no heaven, and, because it has already fixed itself on earth, no hell."

Censorship

The title of plate 69 was altered as "apparently ... too nihilistic" from Goya's "Nada. Ello lo dice" to "Nada. Ello dirá" (Wilson-Bareau, 57).

See also

• Nada