Quotes About Emptiness

Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.

But this is what loss has taught me of love. Our house isn't simply empty, our home has been emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

Once he said to his mother, "Do not ask me what is wrong with me, for I do not know. When I reach into my mind I encounter nothing but

I feel very short-attention span for like accomplishment. It's like 'oh that felt really good' and then it's kind of like an immediate emptiness of I need to make something else - I don't like to dwell on things too long.

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

After Balasaheb died, I have not spoken. What do I say?

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.