Quotes About Emptiness

One is always in the hold of the world, but one doesn't physically feel it's hold, doesn't account for its effect. Cannot draw comfort from the hold of the world, which registers only as a neutral emptiness. But the sea one feels. And so surrounded, so steadily held, so gently rocked - so differently organized - one's thoughts come in another form.

Once, coming out of the cool, dark lab into the heat of the desert sun, he'd briefly wondered if the emptiness he'd been so staunchly guarding was, not the absence of memory, but actually a memory itself: a recollection of the blazing white potential that had existed before he was born. The emptiness an infant possesses in the very first moments, when consciousness begins like the answer to a question never asked.

Of his first wife, Ekatarina, who had died of tuberculosis in 1907, a year after their marriage, Stalin had reportedly said: "With her died my last warm feelings for humanity."3)

I am always filled with melancholy. It's as if I see everything black. Everything wounds me deeply.

I'm sad, uneasy. I look with awe on my life and soul. Nothing satisfies me.

I don't desire anything right now. My desires have frozen in my breast. A lethargy is killing my heart.

We live in a society where the "nothing" (shopping, watching TV) has become a "something" and the "something" (relaxing, meditating, sharing) has become a void in need of being filled.

I used to think my problem was that my disk was full; now I'm forced to conclude that the opposite is true: it's becoming empty

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

a man who could tell that terrible lie, live with that terrible lie, had something missing inside him.

deliberately blank. "Of

I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

I am nothing, and not even that.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

Its only after you've lost everything, Tyler says, that you're free to do anything.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

I am helpless. I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things. My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it Entourage. This is how bad your life can get.