Quotes About Emptiness

how to be poignant and moving and clever on the face of that, when all I felt was hollow.

I wanted to be enough to fill the universe inside of Jacob Grace. But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.

My soul is withering.

A search. We're all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two hundred pairs. But it's all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Growing up without a dad and not having a father figure - I noticed a hole in my life. For the longest time, I would run away from my problems instead of confronting them. I felt empty at one point. Not depressed, but empty.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I was put in the Anda cell at the Arthur Road jail which is the most secluded cell. You have no contact with anyone and you don't even get newspapers. I was completely numb.

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.

Love was here today and left us dry did we deserve Him?

There remained a hole drilled through his heart.

The thought Nicole really wanted to lose was that there was no more Gary. It was a possibility she did not like to consider. It was too depressing to believe he might not be on the other side.

Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time. After a year it is completely naked, apparent to her, that he is alone, that he fights out battles with himself upon her body, and something withers in her.

Sve se na koncu svede na ništa.

Two bodies face to face Are at times two waves And the night is an ocean. Two bodies face to face Are sometimes two stones And the night a desert.

En alguna parte hay un lugar vacío y ese vacío se llenará de mí y yo me asentaré en ese hueco que insesiblemente rebosará de mí, pleno de mí hasta volverse fuente o surtidor. Y mi vacío, el vacío de mí que soy ahora, se llenará de sí, pleno de ser hasta los bordes.

Ahora bien, todo desprendimiento provoca una herida

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [...]

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.