Quotes About Emptiness

Before I met you I was only half-alive.

There's a kind of grief that just eats one up. It weighs one down.

And then they left, and all was quiet, but it wasn't peaceful. Just empty.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day.

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

I can feel myself dying inside.

I thought I was dead inside.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.

My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that was enough. And, of course, that was true. Nothing could have been enough.

To never see her again, to never hear her sweet voice, smell her warm scent…it was simply unbearable. The loss felt like death and in a way it was—the death of everything that meant anything to him. Gods, how was he going to go on?

Who could believe such a thing? That it was better to live a life of constant loneliness and emptiness rather than try to fill the void with someone of an "unacceptable" class or clan? That it was better to be alone than try to find someone to love outside the narrow strata of society my parents approved of?

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I feel so alone," she said. "You don't realize how much space someone takes up until they're gone and there's too much emptiness. This place never echoed before. Now it does." She was mystified.

Years have passed since my heart's been anyone's destination,/ and its wounds, in this desolation,/ have lost their sheen--/ Whom can I possibly ask to pour color into them? --from "Two Elegies: 1. Appointments

My heart still full of her, Traveled over her face, and found her there no more... I thought to myself that a women unknown Had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes And I let the chilly statue pass Looking at the skies. Alfredde Musset

Pero el 2 no ha sido nunca un número es una angustia y su sombra...

Para ver que todo se ha ido dame to mudo hueco, ¡amor mío! Nostalgia de academia y cielo triste. ¡Para ver que todo se ha ido!

No preguntarme nada. He visto que las cosas cuando buscan su curso encuentran su vacío.

La Soleá" All in this world has broken. All that's left is silence. (Leave me in this field weeping.)

Pero ya habrán mezclado sus sangres y serán como dos cántaros vacíos, como dos arroyos secos.