Quotes About Emptiness

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around

The kind of stillness of being nothing, and doing things from that emptiness, make one strong.

I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something.

It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.

It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that is no longer is there.

I waited for something, something died.So I waited for nothing, Nothing arrived.

I awoke with an insatiable desire to end my life.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

Only those who are empty within, seek to suppress those around them

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

I feel I'm living in parentheses

We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.

I don't see how anyone can find happiness in this world.

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow...

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty.