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Quotes About Emptiness

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Don't love anything that can be taken away.
~ Ron Rash, Serena
I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
~ Lauren Oliver, Requiem
I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.
~ Markus Zusak
If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.
~ Rebecca Ferguson
There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.
~ Rumi
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
~ Adyashanti
I don't remember feeling love.
~ Quincy Jones
I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.
~ Vanessa Veselka
And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.
~ Will Christopher Baer
Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.
~ Yoshida Kenko
The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Out stretched hands and one night stands, still I can't find love.
~ Kid Rock
To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
~ Rumi
No better love than love with no object
~ Rumi
I'm afraid love is just a word.
~ Harry Mulisch
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever.
~ John Updike
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.
~ Sylvia Plath
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.
~ Maurice Blanchot