Quotes About Emptiness

What good is safety if you're dead inside?

How many divorces are caused by the word nothing? I think this would be a very interesting statistic.

There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone. - Sentry

I don't even exist—I'm no one. Nothing.

All my love gone for nothing. Days of my love, years of my love.

Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert

You are nothing at all. Just a crack where the light slipped through.

What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

Not the shape of one I loved. The ashes of a ghost.

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

If the generations of man passed through the world like a ship passing through the sea and the wind over the desert—a fruitless and a vain thing; if eternal oblivion were ever greedily watching for its prey and there existed no power strong enough to wrest it from its clutches—how empty were life then, and how dismal!

How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than with prayer?

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

Thir must be less tae life than this

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Alone.Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.