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Quotes About Emptiness

Il vuoto è l'inizio di tutte le cose.
~ Raymond Carver
I don't want to talk to anybody. Actually, I'd talk to Molly, if I could, but I can't any longer — she's somebody else now. She isn't Molly any more. But — what can I say? — I'm somebody else, too.
~ Raymond Carver
years later, I still wanted to give up friend, love, starry skies, for a house where no one was home, no one coming back, and all I could drink.
~ Raymond Carver
È un pezzo ormai che mi manchi. Mi sei mancato tanto che ormai è come se ti fossi perso, non so come spiegarlo. Ti ho perso. Non sei più mio.
~ Raymond Carver
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.
~ Raymond Chandler
The room was empty. It was full of silence and the memory of a nice perfume.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between the stars.
~ Raymond Chandler
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing. Here we go again.
~ Raymond Chandler
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets. I
~ Raymond Chandler
Wherever I went, whatever I did, this was what I would come back to. A blank wall in a meaningless room in a meaningless house.
~ Raymond Chandler
They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room." I didn't say anything.
~ Raymond Chandler
We drove away from Las Olindas through a series of little dank beach towns with shack-like houses built down on the sand close to the rumble of the surf and larger houses built back on the slopes behind. A yellow window shone here and there, but most of the houses were dark. A smell of kelp came in off the water and lay on the fog. The tires sang on the moist concrete of the boulevard. The world was a wet emptiness.
~ Raymond Chandler
Out there in the night of a thousand crimes people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick, bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
~ Raymond Chandler
Es gibt nichts, was leerer aussieht als ein leeres Schwimmbecken
~ Raymond Chandler
bottle of rye out
~ Raymond Chandler
she fills a dark and cold place within me as no one else has." "If it is still dark and cold when she is not with you, it is not truly filled.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Versos libres El autobús lleno el corazón vacío el cuello largo el cordón trenzado los pies planos planos y aplanados el sitio vacío
~ Raymond Queneau
Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I got dosed by you and Closer than most to you and What am I supposed to do Take it away I never had it anyway
~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
No one ever told you what to do when love went away. It was always about capturing love, and keeping love. Not about watching it walk out the door to die alone rather than in your arms.
~ Rene Denfeld
What was life like here before I came?" Empty, she wanted to say. Before you came into my life it was empty, hollow, and lonely.
~ Rexanne Becnel
For the Sufi, reality is neither emptiness nor illusion; reality is God.
~ Reza Aslan