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Quotes About Emptiness

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.
~ William Faulkner
I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.
~ David Walliams
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
~ Berthold Auerbach
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
~ Blaise Pascal
Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.
~ Bob Dylan
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
~ Constance Rourke
But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
~ Lord Byron
How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.
~ Lori Lansens
There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.
~ Nalini Singh
Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.
~ Johann Baptist Metz
There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.
~ John Steinbeck
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.
~ Nicole Richie
I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.
~ Maggie Georgiana Young
I be yellin out money over everything, money on my mind then she wanna ask when it got so empty. Tell her I apologize, happened over time. They say they miss the old Drake, girl don't tempt me
~ Drake
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
~ Mike Tyson
Poor the man who has earned millions and millions of rupees but has never tasted the meaning of true love.
~ Avijeet Das
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.
~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
~ Emily Dickinson
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
~ W. S. Merwin