Quotes About Emptiness

What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness.

The terrible dark, where nothing, not even time itself, existed.

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Sex. Love. The lack of both was like two deprivations from two deep and timeless wells.

The whole weight of our economy and its job prospects is built on the outlook that people are empty.

She had aged five years since Cirocco last saw her. She was a thin, hollow-eyed ghost with hands that shook constantly. She looked incomplete, as if half of her had been hacked away.

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in all the world.

She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life.

He was drained of feeling, and he felt very old and tired.

He felt at times that he was a kind of vegetable, and he longed for something—even pain—to pierce him, to bring him alive.

He felt at times that he was kind of a vegetable and he longed for something--even pain-- to pierce him, to bring him alive.

He felt vaguely that he would be leaving something behind, something that might have been precious to him, had he been able to know what it was.

This came to be a ritual, more and more meaningless as it was repeated, but a ritual which nevertheless gave his life the only shape it now had.

What does become of people who slip quietly out of your life?

He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.

I knew in my very heart that I would not be able to sustain myself for long alone.

Most of the villages showed empty streets, and the countryside around them was as deserted as if the whole human race and most of its animals had been spirited away. Until we came to Steeple Honey.

I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?

And it seemed that my ping-pong ball could not touch his right now. We are alone in these things that we suffer.

Driving home, Tommy was aware of a sensation like that of a tire becoming flat, as though he had been filled—all his life—with some sustaining air, and it was gone now; he felt, increasingly as he drove, a sense of fear. He could not understand it.

Ximena walks through the emotionless atmosphere found only in new houses.