Quotes About Emptiness

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Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then what little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

Loneliness is an empty space, a hole that cannot be filled. Loneliness is the weather side of the quarterdeck and a vacant captain's cabin. It's the sea when I can't look at it through your eyes. It's the wind when I can't hear it with your ears. It's salt when I can't taste it on your lips.

People are so sad," she said. "People are so hurt," she said. "So please let us not be empty like empty barrels," she said. All along, the ceiling light kept doing its thing. And together with Professor Pearls, we answered her, as if this had been planned, "Amen.

Loneliness. There is no worse loneliness than the loneliness of a dog who never was anything but lonely, because the loneliness is normal, like a heartbeat. Do you think it's easy to go to the place inside a dog where the loneliness is, when you can't even do it with yourself?

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

By his own bitter experience, Solomon learned the emptiness of a life that seeks in earthly things its highest good.

There's no statute of limitations on missing someone. I'm sure there are still times when it feels like only yesterday." It

One is impelled to glance across the table, and since you went away I have done that so often that my eyes must have worn some varnish from the empty chair.

A beautiful environment can be the darkest hell if you have to experience it all alone.

He walked until his heart was as dreary as the sky, until some sort of truth came to him.

Just at the moment, her life seemed oddly thin

de la implacable sensación de que mi vida se me queda corta.

I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.

I long to be free—desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.

Din tot ce-ai fost, nu mai ramîne decît o adiere patetica.