The question of whether something can come from nothing

What if it is not clear whether the universe must have had a start? Isn't this the very mystery and the unanswerable question itself?
To begin, the idea of nothing is itself a paradox, for it is simply impossible to even grasp what nothing actually means, for the minute one focuses one's attention on the concept of nothing, one is making this supposed nothing into a something. This is occuring by the fact that one has now imagined some form of blackness or emptiness, something of which is notheless still a something, by manner of having the quality of blackness and emptiness.
How can one grasp nothingness with one's minds eye when our intellect and faculties of perception and reception of experience can only grasp things that have qualities? Nothing has no qualities; it is beyond emptiness; it is not vaccuum; it has no extension; and no dimensions.

So how can a state of being which has no qualities, no "anything", without the help of a first mover, which itself would mean there was a something, ever hope to manifest itself into a something, let alone a universe; our universe? With no first mover, how can nothingness will itself into becoming something? How would the first vibration even begin? Are we therefore granting that there must have been a first mover? Is the only other possibility and scenario, that of the universe having always existed? Is is there a third possibility? Certainly there must, but I am blinded to it at the moment.