Quotes About Emptiness

Every individual spends a lifetime trying to disprove Copernicus by placing him- or herself at the heart of existence, but a small core of diehards manages to turn it into an art. Harpur Griffin was just such a man, spurred on by a suspicion, although he could never have expressed it in so many words, that he was just an emptiness with a name.

He had, in truth, been losing her for a very long time.

heard the sound of emptiness, which, as anyone knows, is not the same thing as no sound, since it includes all the noise that someone was expecting to hear, but doesn't.

but loss is absence, and will always defy expression.

What have you taken from me, and from what have you taken me?

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

A streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence.

Circumference = nowhere; center point =

L'aube n'est pas silencieuse, mais elle est sous-peuplée.

If we were to smooth out all the material in the Universe into a uniform sea of atoms we would see just how little of anything there is. There would be little more than about 1 atom in every cubic metre of space. No laboratory on Earth could produce an artificial vacuum that was anywhere near as empty as that. The best vacuum achievable today contains approximately 1000 billion atoms in a cubic metre.

We constantly need to be reminded not to attach to anything.

For I am every dead thing,In whom love wrought new alchemy.For his art did expressA quintessence even from nothingness,From dull privations, and lean emptinessHe ruin'd me, and I am re-begotOf absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

Life is a useless passion.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.