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Quotes About Emptiness

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!
~ Ray Milland
Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
~ John Steinbeck
A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
People are scared man, they're scared of the void.
~ Joe Rogan
The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.
~ Lewis Hyde
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
~ Edith Wharton
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.
~ Lin Yutang
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
~ Marilyn French
We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.
~ Pico Iyer
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
~ Samuel Johnson
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
~ William Butler Yeats
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
~ Edward Dahlberg
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
~ Tennessee Williams
Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.
~ Teresa Medeiros
A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.
~ Terri Guillemets
Nothing is sad on a beautiful morning save to look down and realize you just had the last sip of coffee and the mug sits indifferently empty.
~ Terri Guillemets
You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
~ Terri Guillemets
appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing.
~ Terry Gross
He shows up in His fullness when you praise Him from your emptiness, because that is when you truly have room for Him.
~ Terry Law
He had searched for redemption under the bright dead moon, and he had come up empty-handed. Adam would die a thing that was alone and unloved. Just like that moon.
~ Terry M. West