Quotes About Emptiness

Gone. Gone! GONE! Blackness. Emptiness.

Every time you leave, I feel as if less of you returns to me.

For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

As Roran watched, the man's arms, neck, and chest shriveled, and his bones appeared in sharp relief-from the bowlike curve of his collarbones to the hollow saddle of his hips, where his stomach hung like an empty waterskin. His lips puckered and drew back farther than they were intended to over his yellow teeth, baring them in a grisly snarl, while his eyeballs deflated as if they were engorged ticks being squished empty of blood, and the surrounding flesh sank inward.

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

He opened all the drawers in his desk. All were empty, except that a box of staples lay in one. He pocketed the staples. "I already took the polygraph.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Vero Lettore è chi capisce che il segreto di un testo è il suo stesso vuoto.

the frantic desire for the Almost Real arises only as a neurotic reaction to the vacuum of memories; the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth.

he had no affection left in his life—only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie of vice.

And so my satisfactions had only been brothel satisfactions, which hadn't been satisfactions at all.

Sophie; there was space

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

The void in the heart does not accommodate itself to a proxy.

A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.

La vie n'est qu'une longue perte de tout ce qu'on aime.

hasret; özlenenden uzak m? kalmakt?r? özlenen yak?ndayken hicran duyulamaz m??

To such an extent was this disease that for those who know that Quasimodo has existed, Notre-Dame is to-day deserted, inanimate, dead. One feels that something has disappeared from it. That immense body is empty; it is a skeleton; the spirit has quitted it, one sees its place and that is all. It is like a skull which still has holes for the eyes, but no longer sight.

Nadas que são enormes dentro do vazio.

Qué triste está el alma cuando está triste por el amor! ¡Qué vacío tan inmenso es la ausencia del ser que llena el mundo! ¡Oh! ¡Cuán verdadero es que el ser amado se convierte en Dios!

Grief had become her silent sidekick. She felt its shadow beside her all the time.

Will ya look at it?" Dad threw his arms wide, as if he wanted to embrace it all. He seemed to be growing before their eyes, like a tree, spreading branches wide, becoming strong. He liked the nothingness he saw, the vast emptiness. It was what he'd come for.

Lost. It makes it sound as if I misplaced my loved ones; perhaps I left them where they don't belong and then turned away, too confused to retrace my steps. They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.