Quotes About Emptiness

you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

My soul is sick of solitude.

She stared in shock. There was nobody there!

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

Time to get up time to get washed time to have lunch time to go to bed. What's the point if I never get up again what difference would it make? I might just as well be dead. You might just as well be dead. We all just as well be dead! This isn't living. This is…

You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's one and only.

I mean that most people, married or single, stand inwardly alone

An empty day, though clear and bright. Is just as dark as any night.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way.

When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)

On writer's block: The word block suggests that you are constipated or stuck, when the truth is that you're empty.

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.

Writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.

Love permeates everything, the world is saturated with it, or is emptied of it. Always this beautiful or this bereft.

Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.

A place so empty it was not even haunted

Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful. There are places that claim you and places that warn you away. Silence is the response to both emptiness and fullness.

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.