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Quotes About Emptiness

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
~ Tatjana Patitz
She who boasts of lovers soon has none.
~ Minna Antrim
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.
~ Robert Sean Leonard
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
~ Daniel Barenboim
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
~ John Lydon
Our life is full of empty space.
~ Umberto Eco
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
~ Dee Hock
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
~ Robert Frost
It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.
~ Adam Riess
I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes an artist to sing the spaces. Anybody can paint a brushstroke; it takes an artist to know when not to put the brushstroke.
~ Brian Stokes Mitchell
But she's still afraid that the more she misses him--his face, his skin, the way he looked at her--and the more hope she has that she'll see him again, the more she has to lose.
~ Julianna Baggott, Fuse
That's how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.
~ Kimberly Novosel, Loved
You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.
~ Richard Brostoff
Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels....
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
And in the end... Not even that old familiar sensation of emptiness. Just a hint of helplessness, a frustration for a lost time from a result prematurely injured and failed.
~ Irina Sopas
Love doesn't exist, you see. It's just another shadowy figure that goes bump in the night.
~ Nikki Rae, Sunshine
I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait
~ Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Do we really need each other, or are we just covering up each other's loneliness?
~ Vatsal Surti, On Love
No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.
~ Srinivas Shenoy
The void can only be filled with love.
~ Marty Rubin
if you eat menand still feel like you're starving, you're craving something that they cannot give.
~ K.Y. Robinson
Nothing is left of meEach time I see her
~ Catullus
You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.
~ Stephanie Roberts