Quotes About Emptiness

But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.

Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

As I spoke, I realized I'd held these words in for so long and so tightly that I felt the space they left empty once released. It was vast enough that I could think of nothing to follow them.

No one knew where I was, not a soul, and while I thought this was what I wanted, I realized, in the quiet of that room, that it was the scariest thing of all

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still missing, in many ways. And I wasn't sure I wanted to be found.

The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you.

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

It was like Abe took some part of him when he went, you know? He's never been the same.

The dead aren't the only ones who vanished: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you.

She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

And then there are days when sleeping is the hardest. The fight of muscle against world becomes so constant, that surrendering to slumber doesn't promise nearly enough relief. These are times when hands feel nothing but empty

A sky still fits the ignition. There just isn't anything left to drive.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard. Only so many in a phone call. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

And then thee are days when sleeping is the hardest. The fight of muscle against world becomes so constant, that surrendering to slumber doesn't promise nearly enough relief. These re times when hands feel nothing but empty.

It is hard to stop loving the ocean, even after it has left you gasping.

Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love

some quality that was there before has been stolen. The scholar is still there, thought Taliesin, but I believe that the poet has gone.

I've never been in love, never in my life. Oh, I've dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night, but my soul is like a fine piano that's locked, and the key is lost.

I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever.

His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, 'there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.

Besides the money and land, Lafayette inherited a six-foot-tall hole in his heart that only a father figure like George Washington could fill.

Ya no puedo recibir de estas soledades trágicas nada más que un poco de pureza vacía.

Construyo mis recuerdos con el presente. Estoy desechado, abandonado en el presente. En vano trato de alcanzar el pasado; no puedo escaparme.