Quotes About Emptiness

What we miss—what we lose and what we mourn—isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.

And it's not the thought that she must miss them, but that she's no longer capable of missing them, that makes me sad. What we miss—what we lose and what we mourn—isn't it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.

his endearment fell on deaf ears like a stone dropping into an empty well.

People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

But I miss you to the point of anguish.

Aujourd'hui, je n'ai pas vécu

Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.

The fact that she accomplishes nothing, that she is nothing, will make her impulses only the more passionate. Empty and unlimited, she seeks from within her nothingness to attain All.

Uno no puede responder con nada a la ausencia.

Deplangeam adultii ale caror saptamani serbede erau vag animate de niste duminici fade. Mi se parea ingrozitor sa traiesti fara sa astepti nimic de la viata.

tutku bir eksiklik, bir kopu?, yerini dolduraca?? bir ?ey gerektirir.

There's something inside me, something as hard as an iron bar, that crushes my will and stops every flicker of enthusiasm or desire. I strip my heart bare, and have a soul as black as any pitch. The thought that mine is not an isolated case offers me no consolation.

El espantoso descenso al fondo de la tristeza. Por lo mismo que uno está triste, no tiene más ganas de hacer nada alegre. Ya nunca pongo un disco cuando me levanto.Ya nunca escucho música, no voy más al cine, no me compro nada que me guste.

Au galop mes jours m'échappent et en chacun d'eux je languis.

El otro, como otro, reviste fácilmente ese carácter maravilloso e inaccesible, pero él a solas consigo, experimenta para sí ese vacío que está en su corazón.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Desire is impossible: it destroys its object. Lovers cannot be one, nor can Narcissus be two. Don Juan, Narcissus. Because to desire something is impossible, we have to desire what is nothing

The void which is from below is that into which we fall when we allow our natural faculties to become atrophied.

you cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. The world-centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection-for God and from God. The love of the world and the love of the Father cannot coexist in the same heart

and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

lilo on the floor next to my bed was empty. I looked out of the window

We reach. We gasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or a worse than a shadow - misery.