Quotes About Emptiness

You should have been here, Will, I told him silently. It was you she really needed.

I thought he was the saddest person I had ever met, in those moments when I glimpsed him staring out the window.

Stolen from someone. Like they stole everything. Occupied. I was occupied. I disappeared.

I only know that when I'm not with you I'm mean and mad at everything.

There is nothing redemptive about the loss of a child, no lessons of value it can teach you. It is too big, too overwhelming, too black to articulate. It is a bleak, overwhelming physical pain, shocking in its intensity, and every time you think you might have moved forward an inch it swells back, like a tidal wave, to drown you again.

I swore I wouldn't contact you again. But six weeks on, and I feel no better. Being without you-thousands of miles from you-offer is no relief at all. The fact that I am no longer tormented by your presence, or presented with daily evidence of my inability to have the one thing I truly desire, has not healed me. It has made things worse. My future feels like a bleak, empty road.

The fact that I am no longer tormented by your proximity, or presented with daily evidence of my inability to have the one thing I truly want, has not healed me. It

and every day I felt like I was living someone else's life.

She abhorred a conversational vacuum.

I had a million things to say and none I knew how.

There was no one left to anchor her to the earth, no one who cared about her. There was nothing to go on to, nothing to return to.

Tenía la mirada vacía de alguien que siempre se encontraba apartado del mundo que lo rodeaba. A veces me preguntaba si era un mecanismo de defensa, si la única manera de sobrellevar esa vida era fingir que no era a él a quien le ocurría todo eso.

I don't think I had ever felt lonelier in my life.

Vi?a zaud?jums ir gluži k? kr?t?s izrauts caurums, nerimstoša smeldze, tukšums, kuru man nekad neizdosies aizpild?t.

Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel as if she were drowning.

If there is a worm in the heart, & chamber it has bitten out, I will protect that emptiness until it is large enough. In it will be a light the color of steel & landscape, into which the traveler might set out.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

why are we so alone?

Ne viskas turi esm?. Yra aki? be dugno, yra širdži? išsekusi?, kaip sausmedis, ištroškusi?. Tikrov??- miražas dykumoj kartais tikresnis, negu mes patys.

Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.

This is a decisive trait of the era of technological addictiveness: that one can return again and again to a neutral void that has little affective intensity of any kind.

To paraphrase Maurice Blanchot, it [24/7] is both of and after the disaster, characterized by the empty sky, in which no star or sign is visible, in which one's bearings are lost and orientation is impossible. p.17

When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.

Even so tiny a loss has the power to still feel like a loss.