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Quotes About Emptiness

I stopped believing in forever years and years ago-but every breakup hurt me anyway. Every woman who left took part of me with her. Maybe I wasn't too full with the past-maybe I was just too empty. I just didn't know if I had anything left.
~ Terry Woodrow
Last of his toothpaste, last of his Wheat Chex, last of his 5-Quick-Cinnamon-Rolls-With-Icing, his Pop Secret Microwave Pop- corn, his Deluxe Fudge Brownie Mix next to my Casbah Nutted Pilaf on the sparser shelf, I'm using it all up. Chanting: he'd-want-me- to-he'd-want-me-to. To consume loss like a hydra-headed meal of would-have-dones accompanied by missed-shared-delight. What can I tell you?
~ Tess Gallagher
Two people can be in the same room and still be gone.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
When there is no family, what else is there to fight for? I was blinded with obsession, for something that could never fill me. I lost everything that mattered.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
I thought to myself how lucky, how lucky that I jumped at my only chance when I could. Sure, I did not love him, but I was loved. I had everything Corazón had wanted. I had beaten her at every round, yet I felt nothing but a devastating emptiness inside. Y
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
Empty is the house of a childless man; as empty is the mind of a bachelor; empty are all quarters of the world to an ignorant man; but poverty is total emptiness.
~ The Hitopadesa
But my dreams, they aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be
~ The Who
There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.
~ Theodor Adorno
In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.
~ Theodor W Adorno
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
~ Theodore Roethke
In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
~ Theodore Roethke
It was strange. ... If she'd never gone to the Amazon, never met Ash, she would most likely have been perfectly content with Todd. She wouldn't have understood those fleeting flashes of emptiness that come upon a per¬son from time to time. Now she knew what they were: the yearning for what could have been, for the road never taken.
~ Theresa Weir
In the middle of the kitchen table was an empty birdcage, the metal door ajar. A feeling of deep melancholy washed over her, the empty cage somehow seeming symbolic of Eddie Berlin's life. ~0~
~ Theresa Weir
I'm afraid of the emptiness in my life. I'm afraid I've built you into something you're not.
~ Theresa Weir
My actions are my only true belongings.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.
~ Thom Yorke
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist
~ Thomas Carlyle
I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.
~ Kelsey Grammer
It's difficult in your life when both parents pass so quickly and you're not really that old when they move on. There is a big gap in your life. There's a hole. You learn to live with it but never forget it.
~ Sam Allardyce
When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.
~ Drake
Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.
~ Daniel Ek
'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.
~ Cathleen Schine
Fun? There is no fun.
~ Klaus Kinski
I'm alone. I'm going to end up dying alone.
~ Nicholas Sparks