Quotes About Emptiness

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

They is no place for me in this world , I am surround by many people but still feel alone.

the meaning of Adam's work sat on its surface, that he had no opinion of his subjects, good or bad: "Cullen's abjectness is not luxury at ease; his emptiness is not profundity; when he scribbles, his poor syntax is not a form of epigram. His crudeness is what it is – unabashed … He's a bottom-feeder, none too pernickety about taste. Every pond needs one, especially the cesspools of popular culture.

As he looked across to the opposite bank a cold claw sank into his heart. Sandstorm was gone.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

Hunger is always a kind of emptiness - an absence of nourishment - but what it will take to replenish it is far from obvious.

One of the reasons hunger is so hard to pin down is that it is a negative concept, an absence.

She used to think of it vaguely as "We don't get along," but it wasn't even that. There were no clashes or quarrels between them, no question of infidelity. He certainly wasn't the type for an affair, and at forty-eight, her hair graying and her figure gone, she had resigned herself to weary middle age. It was just that together, bleakly confronted with each other, they experienced a vast and hopeless boredom.

God can only be met in emptiness, by those who come in love, abandoning all effort to control, every need to astound.

Once upon a time, he'd believed that his music, his guitar, and his songs were everything he needed. But tonight, as his tour bus roared down yet another highway to yet another stadium, Ford finally realized that his songs and audiences could never even come close to filling the hole inside of him. Only one thing - only one person - had ever been able to do that. Only Mia.

The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

There's almost nothing more discouraging than the sunset on a day when you've hardly gone outside.

carefully combed and scented vulture waiting to swoop down from the side lines." Evening after evening between 6 o'clock and midnight he drifts in and out of the lobby, up and down Randolph Street and takes up his position at various points of vantage where crowds pass, where women pass. I've watched him. No one ever talks to him. There are no salutations. He is unknown and worse. For the women, the rouged and ornamental ones, know him a bit too well. They

Love is a hole in the heart.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

How much easier it would be if when you played them slowly in reverse the lyrics really did, as some hysterical parents feared, reveal satanic messages; if there were a backmasked secret order, however dark, instead of rage at emptiness.

What could be lonelier than a child in space?

this vacuum at the heart of privilege

the abyss of non-belief, the vacuum, cannot be filled with stuff

I sounded angry, felt nothing.

There would not be an empty room without windows in a perfect world. In a perfect world, nothing would have happened yet. Everything would go without saying. All of the sayings would be given.