Quotes About Emptiness

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

he kept getting glimmers of hope—hope that died instantly when he moved the chairs aside and saw nothing there.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater - Tanis Half-elven

The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one.

Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime. Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.

Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay vastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo. No es cierto, no hubo nadie.

No le conozco a usted. Nadie puede conocerle, ponerse en su lugar, usted no tiene lugar, no sabe dónde encontrar un lugar. Por ello le quiero y usted está perdido.

It's as if they were happy, and as if it came from outside themselves. And I have nothing like that.

En última instancia podría faltar pan, pero si no hay manzanas, entonces, por ejemplo, no hay nada de nada...

All around her are wildernesses, wastes.

Ainsi cependant vous avez pu vivre cet amour de la seule façon qui puisse se faire pour vous, en le perdant avant qu'il soit advenu.

Loneliness does not arise so much from something lost as from a longing for something well remembered. Isolation cares nothing for memory.

Ik wist toen nog niet dat de dood voorwerp kan worden van een blinde drang, van een honger zoals de liefde. Ik had niet die nachten voorzien waarin ik mijn riem om mijn dolk zou wikkelen om mezelf te dwingen tweemaal na te denken alvorens mij ervan te bedienen. Alleen Arrianos is doorgedrongen tot het geheim van dat roemloze gevecht tegen de leegte, de dorheid, de vermoeienis, de walging van het bestaan die uitloopt op het verlangen te sterven.