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Quotes About Emptiness

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What matters our creative endless toil, When at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? 'It is by-gone' - How shall the riddle run? As good as if things never had begun, Yet circle back, existence to possess: I'd rather have eternal Emptiness.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ay de mí! Este vacío, este horrible vacío que siente mi alma... Muchas veces me digo: "Si pudiera un momento, uno solo estrecharla contra mi corazón, todo este vacío se llenaría.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
~ Austin O'Malley
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
~ Larry David
Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.
~ Matthew Carter
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
~ Anton Chekhov
When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
~ Bessie Smith
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
~ George Santayana
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
~ Harper Lee
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.
~ James Hillman
I can make beleive I have everything, but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.
~ Sisqo
One finds life through conquering the fear of death within one's mind. Empty the mind of all forms of attachment, make a go-for-broke charge and conquer the opponent with one decisive slash.
~ Takenaka Shigekata
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
~ Cesare Pavese
I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
~ David Shields
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?
~ Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
~ Gautama Buddha
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
~ Henry Miller
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
~ Charles Baudelaire
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
~ Charles Bukowski