Quotes About Emptiness

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? How about this: I lost without the love. I've lost things I've never even had. A whole life.

You'll miss me, yes you will You won't know how much until I'm gone Like the sweet memory of something you used to love

She could see and smell and touch and hear, but somehow she could hardly feel at

and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.

Ein toter Mensch ist wie ein Saal, in dem ein Fest zu Ende gegangen ist. Ein rauschendes Fest. Die Menschen sind alle fort um irgendwo anders weiterzufeiern. Und schau, so ein leerer Saal hat doch was ganz Friedliches. Die Luftschlangen, die Gläser, die Musikinstrumente und die Stille.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

The time between basketball season and football season is my equivalent to being cast into the phantom zone.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

I had a little glimpse of what fame holds, and I decided it held a load of nothing.

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.

We all have holes inside. We need love.

The empty room of someone who has gone to college, or is on holiday, is not much different from someone who has just died. We live in rooms. Then we don't.

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

Only those who have lost their parents will know what it is like. It is horrific, it is hard and it breaks your heart, it really does.

When you go a week without seeing a human face, that does something to you.

I am dying of hunger.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

do not turn anything Into something longed for, For then it's dreadful to lose.