Quotes About Emptiness

One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents husband, country, and love were gone—what was left to betray?

La vertigine è la voce del vuoto sotto di noi che ci attira, che ci alletta, è il desiderio di cadere, dal quale ci difendiamo con paura.

Soledad: dulce ausencia de miradas

we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line.

Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Sabina sentía a su alrededor el vacío. Pero ¿qué sucedería si ese vacío fuese precisamente el objetivo de todas sus traiciones?

If I have not love, I am Nothing.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

Love is pointless. It's the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.