Quotes About Emptiness

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

The more we take, the less we become.

What did my hands do before they held you?

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

But Ruby understands now, this inclination. This desire to slip away. To seclude herself. She understands how it feels to be an island, separate from everyone else, surrounded by nothing but water. Even when she is with people (at school, at Izzy's house, at the pool), she is aware of how alone she is. Nobody can reach her, not really. She and her mother are more similar than different, but she doesn't know how to tell her mom this. What words might explain she understands.

Shape without form, shade without color,Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;Those who have crossedWith direct eyes, to death's other KingdomRemember us—if at all—not as lostViolent souls, but onlyAs the hollow menThe stuffed men.

We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!

The dancers are all gone under the hill.

From Gold gold bars and gold ingots bare their teeth the skulls keep silent the sockets speak

The thing is, I am so lonely I can hardly breathe.

From the dawn of time to the end of time, the world would never run short of cold, cold hearts.

Sarte was right, Hell is other people

I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.

Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.

My mind is done for the night, shorted out; there's nothing left but a dial tone.

Die Berge am Horizont sehen aus, als hätte jemand ein Taschenmesser genommen und glatte Bögen aus dem sternsatten Himmel geschnitten, so dass nur leere Schwärze zurückbleibt.

When Cal hangs up he has the same empty feeling he always gets after talking to Alyssa these days, a sense that somehow, in spite of having been on the phone for all that time, they haven't had a conversation at all; the whole thing was made of air and tumbleweed, nothing solid there. When she was a little kid she would trot along holding his hand and tell him everything, good and bad, it all poured straight from her heart to her mouth. He can't remember when that changed.

the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?