Quotes About Emptiness

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

He kept on digging but the grave did not get any deeper. "The dead are poor," he said in the voice of the stranger. You can't be any poorer than dead.

No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not.

His heart constricted with a repulsion for himself so clear and intense that he gasped for breath. He had stuffed his own emptiness with good works like a glutton.

Uostalom, ništa i ne vredi tražiti; sve je laž! Svaki osmejak skriva zevanje od dosade, svaka radost neko prokletstvo, svako uživanje odvratnost prema njemu samom, a i najbolji poljupci samo vam ostavljaju neku neostvarljivu želju za kakvom višom nasladom.

Es gibt einen Augenblick im Auseinandergehen, da ist die geliebte Person schon nicht mehr bei uns. Lehrjahre der Männlichkeit

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're very simply gone.

People tend to keep their distance.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.