Quotes About Emptiness

How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

Quiero proceder a una especie de identificación. Saber que las pasiones existen y no poder sentirlas es horroroso. - Pero entonces -dijo Ángel-está claro que tiene usted por lo menos este deseo, y eso basta para que no esté tan vacío. - No tengo ningún motivo para decidirme por una cosa más bien que por otra -dijo Jacquemort-. Deseo robarles a los demás las razones que tienen.

Revenge was a bitter medicine. It didn't cure suffering. It didn't provide closure. It only hollowed you out further.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

But for the rest nothing amused him; nothing satisfied him. All was shadows, emptiness, echoes and dust.

If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?

But the sound that came out of his mouth was no sound at all; it was the emptied skin of sound without flesh or bones.

If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty? Yet the simple fact is that if I remain in these Halls I will be alone.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Back then I didn't know that I­­or anyone­­could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. The result was chronic emptiness and boredom. There were more pernicious results as well: self­loathing, alternating with inappropriately intense anger with frequent displays of temper...

Vuoto e noia: che eufemismo. Provavo la desolazione più nera. Desolazione disperazione e depressione. Ci sono altri modi di guardare a tutto ciò? In fondo, una inquietudine di dimensioni tali è un oggetto di lusso. Bisogna essere ben nutriti, vestiti e avere una bella casa, se si vuole aver tempo per tutta questa autocommiserazione.

Lisa's eyes, once so magnetic, now just look empty.

Da ich lange gelebt habe und von vielen Menschen zurückgelassen wurde, weiß ich unterdessen, daß die Toten einen nicht durch ihre Abwesenheit belasten, sondern durch das, was - zwischen ihnen und uns - nicht ausgesprochen wurde.

Los muertos persan, no tânto por su ausencia, como por lo que entre nosotros y ellos no ha sido dicho.

3 years, 1 month, 1 week, and 6 days since I'd seen daylight.

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

the delicacy, the impermanence, the emptiness of mind states. Just like the weather, they blow in and out. Good mood. Bad mood. Tranquil mood. Frazzled mood [p. 105].

Qué haría yo sin ti? —Eso nunca lo sabrás.

I'm losing my mind without you.

No matter how close we were, it was never close enough.