Quotes About Emptiness

All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

Let him love none and be by none beloved!

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.

There's nothing deader than a dead love.

One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me.

My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.

When you are missing something you've left behind, it could be dead or lost so that you never find it again. You never really know, when you don't have something, what its condition is. That's why you grieve about it to the same degree- because you just don't know.

He had wanted. He had needed. He had desired. And he had taken. But he had never loved.

Creating chaos provides excitement for some people, especially those who are uneasy with silence, those who distract themselves from their own problems by focusing outward, those who feel empty inside and need to fill themselves up with activity, and those who were raised in an environment in which harmony and peace were unknown.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he faces his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. And at once there wells up from the depths of his soul boredom, gloom, depression, chagrin, resentment, despair.

Nada nos puede consolar cuando lo pensamos detenidamente.

What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.

We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

ah mama what care the dead t drink up their own toasts? spirits slurping candle syrup affects whose emptiness?

It almost felt like too much, just by the sad weight of its being so little.

Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu'à l'âme, à cause de la guerre, à cause des vendeuses dont les maris ou les amants se trouvaient sans doute quelque part, entre la mer du Nord et les Vosges. Mais il comprenait que Madeleine avait besoin de cette nourriture, justement pour tenir en échec ce vide, ce néant, cette nuit où elle était toujours sur le point de sombrer.

You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

The worst form of stress is an absence of stress, because the feeling that there is no life before death gives rise to a despairing feeling of emptiness in the face of the void.