Quotes About Emptiness

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

This book will bring little joy to the reader.

Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noches de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar?¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo estaba el vacío?

Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noche de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar? ¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo estaba el vacío?

Sometimes Felix seemed like an empty house, but he wasn't really. It was just that he kept all his possessions in a locked room. And when, once every few years, the door cracked open for a moment, she felt strangely moved to see herself within.

I write in lieu of love, to fill that empty space above death.

Marie-Claude m'a appelée. Jean-Yves est mort vendredi dernier. Il m'arrive de penser que nous sommes mystérieusement liés aux êtres et que leur disparition produit des « ondes ». Vendredi, ce jour où j'ai été si mal, où tout a paru me manquer, a été le jour de la mort de J.-Yves. Je ne l'ai jamais revu depuis juillet 63. Il m'avait confié : « Je n'ai pas d'ami. »

Relisant le cahier de l'année dernière : ce n'était pas plus brillant, très vide. Cela ne console pas. Je commence à souffrir de l'absence de S. une semaine, six jours, après le dernier rendez-vous. À ce moment-là, je cesse de vouloir écrire pour lui, je veux écrire pour l'oublier, me détacher de lui, qui m'apparaît toujours sous le visage de Vronski.

Est-ce une vie ? Oui, sans doute, cela vaut mieux que le vide.

I understand this desire to shower gifts on a person we love to demonstrate possession, while knowing that it does nothing to bind him to us, but only makes him proud and heightens his narcissism. That works against the giver, who is short on narcissism. Well, anyway, I love him with all my emptiness.

Jeudi est loin, si loin, et il n'appelle jamais. Il va falloir rompre, ma vie est trop stupide. Mais pour qui est-ce que je bronze

She rejoins the crowd and watches with her friends, but she feels like an emptied glass - that crestfallen feeling of walking out from a movie theatre in the middle of the day, out from the intimate matinée darkness and the smell of popcorn, which is the smell of heightened colour and sound and story, into the borderless bright of day. Bereft.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Sorrow is long when love has vanished underground.

It's awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.

Here my last love had died.

In that dark hour I was aghast to realise that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died. I suddenly knew I had no desire or tenderness or esteem. Nothing remained except the chill bonds of law and duty an custom.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.