Quotes About Emptiness

Waiting for the warm affection of another human heart. Waiting to know the reason he has always felt like a soul alone in the universe. But this night, his waiting

NOTHING IS EVER everything, but the loss of a true love feels that way.

His father had been murdered fifteen hundred miles away. He was just gone. He became the emptiness of the cabin, and that's how Ren had thought of death. Emptiness. A grabbing at air. A conversation stopped in mid-sentence. A body from which the soul had simply departed.

Meloux had never seen his own son. Never carried him on his shoulders or held him when he cried. Never felt the small boy's breath, warm and sweet smelling, break against his face. Never knew the pleasures of being for his son the slayer of monsters imagined in the night.

over our house. My mother became nearly mute and more often than not the only sound from her was weeping. She kept the curtains drawn so that it felt as if permanent night had fallen. Never much concerned anyway with her mundane domestic duties she completely stopped cooking and cleaning and sat for hours in the quiet dark of the living room. She was flesh without spirit, eyes without sight. It felt as

An emptiness opened inside me that could have swallowed the whole universe.

The craving became almost unbearable, and he felt his heart break with the wanting.

For Nature and Creature, without the Christ of God or the Divine Life in Union with it, is and can be nothing else but this mere Emptiness, Hunger, and Want of all that which can alone make it good and happy.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

You love something that ain't there and then you start hating what is there, and that's hell.

The place had the gritty untidiness of belonging to no one, a litter bin for wasted time.

The walls were dun and featureless, the furniture was arranged with all the homeyness of a second-hand sale-room and clothes were littered everywhere. It wasn't a room so much as a suitcase with doors.

Sometimes you can hear the wire, hear it reaching out across the miles; whining with its own weight, crying from the cold, panting at the distance, humming with the phantom sounds of someone else's conversation. You cannot always hear it - only sometimes; when the night is deep and the room is dark and the sound of the phone's ringing has come slicing through uneasy sleep.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there.

You will loose everything" "I already have.

Minos says I'm nothing more than Nothing. Can Nothing take a form and call it me? But nothing is ever what it seems. Watch Nothing laugh. See Nothing cry. Hear Nothing scream.

Mais il faut avoir vécu des années dans le rien pour comprendre comment on peut être subitement effrayé par une possibilité.

Plus rien n'avait d'importance. C'est tellement rare cette sensation d'être envahi totalement.

Non, je n'ai rien caché. Après toi, il n'y a eu personne. J'aurais pu, mais je n'ai jamais pu.

J'éprouvais alternativement la nécessité de ressentir l'intensité de la vie, et un sentiment profond de vacuité. Alors, tout me paraissait dérisoire et absurde.

Elle avait l'impression d'être subitement devenue le centre du monde, quand son monde à elle n'existait plus.