Quotes About Emptiness

There is no answer. That's what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

Chris' absence is very much felt. There's just a huge void in our home life.

There's a lot of times when I just want to scream into the void.

For a long time, life was fighting and there was nothing outside of that. At one point, it started to become very empty just because there was a void somewhere in my heart.

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. They were everything to me and my world was shattered.

Obviously, you're always shocked when you feel like you're not wanted anymore.

I don't like shopping that much. I do it for an hour, and then I feel empty inside and weird.

A full mind is an empty bat.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath.… I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.

When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath.… I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again. Upon

I don't know that you ever get over this kind of loss. The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.

The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.

I'd say I'm living, but I'm not alive without you

My heart floated dead and cold in my chest.

For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

Even then, when the hike was perfect, I would wonder, 'Now what?' And take a picture. Take another picture. Like a man with a photogenic girlfriend he didn't love.