Quotes About Emptiness

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

In einer anderen Nacht kamen ihm plötzlich die Wissenschaft, seine Arbeit, sein gesamtes Leben fremd und überflüssig vor, weil er keinen Freund hatte und außer seiner Mutter niemanden, dem er etwas bedeutete. Aber auch das ging, wie alles, vorüber.

Du kannst was man können muss, aber du bist leer.

At times I wonder if the reason I have lost track of time is that I will know when to return not by a date, but when an emptiness is filled.

There is neither transcendence nor purification.

Réduits a nous-mêmes, nous nous réduisons à rien.

Once one has experienced emptiness, he is not likely to fall back to egoic thinking, unless he has an impulse to ignorance.

So much death and no coffee to be had.

I'd never met him, so I never missed him.

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

Opasno je naginjati se nad tu?om prazninom, a u pustoj želji da se u njoj, kao na dnu bunara, ogleda svoje sopstveno lice; jer i to je taština. Taština nad taštinama.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

We always think of what's missing.

He nurtured silence so long That emptiness took hold of him. The man became a dry branch That cracked in the cold.

Louise often feels like part of her is "acting." At the same time , "there is another part 'inside' that is not connecting with the me that is talking to you," she says. When the depersonalization is at its most intense, she feels like she just doesn't exist. These experiences leave her confused about who she really is, and quite often, she feels like an "actress" or simply, "a fake.

Niente, siamo un nulla riempito di niente, amor mio.

Living inside an over-sized body, I felt safer than I had in years. But something was missing. My heartbeat, I could no longer feel it beneath the walls of fat and pain." Small Pleasures: Mya's Story

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

Much of depression's pain arises out of the recognition that what might make one feel better--human connection-- seems impossible in the midst of a paralyzing episode of depression. It is rather like dying from thirst while looking at a glass of water just beyond one's reach

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.