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Quotes About Emptiness

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.
~ Libba Bray
Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.
~ Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
~ Alice Hoffman
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.
~ C. S. Lewis
The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.
~ Christina Aguilera
Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.
~ Gregoire
When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
~ John Scalzi
who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
~ Lauren Oliver
It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
~ Paul Simon
If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.
~ Quentin Dupieux
If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?
~ Robert Goolrick
Love is just a hole in the wall.
~ Rod Stewart
Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.
~ Shannon Wheeler
I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.
~ Simon Van Booy
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.
~ William Allingham
They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis
~ George R. R. Martin
Hell is not to love anymore.
~ Georges Bernanos
Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?
~ J. K. Rowling
Love is just a shout in the void.
~ John Green
Love with no feelings is a waste.
~ Jon Jones
Sadness of love without release.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer