Quotes About Emptiness

There was a new hole in the world where sorrow could enter.

Tell me, when your wife died...how did you go on living?" He opened his mouth and closed it without answering. She turned away. They went back through the forest to the sea. On the stony strand of the isle, he was still unable to speak. He watched as she unclipped and let fall her purple cloak, and then dropped the brooch that has pinned it and turned and went away along the white stones. The man named Mariscus followed her out of sight. How did you go on living?

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens.

and this morning I am without fire, my marrow is ash, I am very sad.

When you went away, you left me nothing but the sun-bleached world. You did not even leave me a heart to bleed with. I found I was standing there with no body, and so no voice for calling you.

And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying. — Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea . (University of Nebraska Press February 1, 1991) Originally published 1983.

Every day lasts a year. I never enjoy anything. And every morning when I wake up I dread having to face the world again.

It was all that was left of a man's dream.

the feeling of cold emptiness, of having nothing to offer, made the journey a misery.

I wonder where it all begins. When I feel an emptiness in my soul.

The most painful thing is losing yourself and forgetting that you are special too.

It is a longing of the soul, that makes your heart feel emptier, than wanting someone in it.

It is a longing of the soul, that makes our heart feel emptier, than wanting someone in it.

Sometimes it seems difficult when life hurts you. There is a darkness where there seems to be no hope, just the feeling of being empty." Just know there is so much more to life .Just trust yourself, and you will know how to live.

My heart no longer feels as if it belongs to me. It now feels as if its been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.

I won't make Love, I will love the empty place where love should be.

My heart no longer feels as if it belongs to me. It now feels as if its been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it." "I won't let you have it. I won't give you this moment... I own it. .

It was not the feeling of losing what made it worthwhile. It was the holding on to something that wasn't real.

If it hadn't been for emptiness, there would have been nothing to fill. Nothing to struggle with, strive for or dream, that pushes all our nothings into something.

It's so beautiful when love comes from a place of absence.

If it hadn't been for emptiness, there would have been nothing to fill. Nothing to struggle with, strive for or dream for. That pushes all our nothings into something.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.