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Quotes About Emptiness

All the things they'd brought into this house; all of Elsie's things, packed up and taken away. A world delineated by this ebb and flow of items. The stuff of people's lives.
~ Ashley Hay
The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.
~ Asti Hustvedt
There were vast spaces in which his spirit could reach out, touching this, possessing that, of a million crowding sensations, but gradually at first, then rapidly, he had found himself reaching out to ever-receding mirages, alone in a void. He
~ Attia Hosain
The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.
~ Austin Wright
fame gives you everything you never wanted.
~ Ava Gardner
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
~ Ava Gardner
Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time But I'm too young to worry These's streets we traveled on will undergo our same lost past
~ Avenged Sevenfold
She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside...
~ Avril Lavigne
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
~ Ayn Rand
Nothing that is to be had in the world, anywhere, under any circumstances, is capable of bringing fulfillment
~ Ayya Khema
There is something called "echo" exhalation that impresses this point even further. Exhale slowly and fully. Pause. Then exhale again. There is always a slight residue left in the lungs. In that residue is to be found the sludge of toxic memory and ego. In that brief further exhalation, let them go - and experience an even deeper state of relief from burden, of peace and emptiness.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
You are missing in my heart...!
~ Backstreet Boys
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
~ Stephen Hawking
People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.
~ Dick Dale
Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.
~ Prince Charles
You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got... Well then you've got nothin.
~ Garth Ennis
But the Dog was gone forever. Lirael
~ Garth Nix
And those who don't divorce, do they learn to live with the emptiness, or does love really stay alive in some marriages? If so, how?
~ Gary Chapman
Pavol vyvýÅ¡il lásku, ke? poukázal na to, že vÅ¡etky ?udské skutky a víÃ…Â¥azstvá, ktoré nie sú motivované láskou, sú v kone?nom dôsledku prázdne.
~ Gary Chapman
those who don't divorce, do they learn to live with the emptiness, or does love really stay alive in some marriages?
~ Gary Chapman
Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
Now nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen again. Money has taken away everything.
~ Gary Indiana
I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like him, all alone.
~ Gary Shteyngart