Quotes About Emptiness

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

I know part of me is going to die when I stop playing rugby.

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

What did winning a Grammy do for me? It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away, and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about my Grammy.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

The pain of retirement means loss.

When a parent loses a child, there is no greater pain.

At first, not having Mina with us made us all feel lonely, and there was an emptiness without her. However, Mina is trying her best to participate, so even when she's not with us in person, she's still always with us in spirit.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance.

sinful activities are whatever we do with the goal of bringing us into proximity with that which we believe will fill the void in our existence.

When you feel empty, you have to open up your heart and let the wind sweep through it.

I have a need of such clearance as the Savior effected in the temple of Jerusalem a riddance of clutter of what is secondary that blocks the way to the all-important central emptiness which is filled with the presence of God alone. 4 —Jean Danielou

My friend. And by the time she gets over that jarring idea, she's alone again.

Bir ?ey ümit etmemenin rahatl???ndan ba?ka bar?nacak ruhi bir kö?em kalmam??t?.

Ramirez: Yes. Serial killers and most killers in general have a dead conscience. Carlo: When you say a dead conscience that means they don't respond— Ramirez: No morals, no scruples, no conscience. They are ... uh ... they sometimes ... some of them don't even care if they live or die themselves and they are just the walking dead.

For those who have not yet grasped the Way but are seeking the Way, I say: Emptiness, single-mindedness, and stillness—make these be your principles. If

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous.

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft Of anyone to please, it withers so, Having no heart to put aside the theft And turn again to what it started as, A joyous shot at how things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the pictures and the cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.

How strange it is For the heart to be loveless, and as cold as these.

Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: — Philip Larkin, from "Wants," The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin , ed. Archie Burnett (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012)