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Quotes About Emptiness

I see you in the grass, Running through the snow, But where you have gone, I cannot go.
~ Helen Pearson
I cannot bear to think what will become of me without you – you who are my one and all, who make up all my life',
~ Helen Rappaport
B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)
~ Helen Rappaport
Long Years apart - can make no Breach a second cannot fill - The absence of the Witch does not Invalidate the spell -
~ Helen Vendler
She was thinking of him. Doubled up, small as a child, she gazed intently into the distance, at the man who was not there. She bowed to this image like a suppliant, and felt a divine reflection from it falling upon her--from the offended man, the wounded man, from the master, from him who was everywhere except where they were, who occupied the immense outside, and whose name made them bow their heads, the man to whom they were a prey.
~ Henri Barbusse
All these men with their corpse-like faces, in front of us and behind, driven to exhaustion, emptied of words and will....All these men laden with earth, who, you could say, are carrying their own graves...
~ Henri Barbusse
I'm standing in the lake, forming a whirlpool with my arms, letting the force of atonement pull me into its center until I cannot any longer hang onto my observations or any sense of myself, like dust and hydrogen clouds getting all excited white creating new stars to light the backyard. How poignantly emptiness cries out to be filled.
~ Henri Cole
It is to be noted that a deserted street at four o'clock in the afternoon has as strong a significance as the swarming of a square at market or meeting times.
~ Henri Lefebvre
At that moment there were two feelings inside Celeste's tiny, rapidly beating heart that made her feel as full, and as empty, as a gourd. The sheer beauty of this moment was perfect and sublime. But she was alone.
~ Henry Cole
Every day, we wake up empty and scared." So start by accepting that it's okay to suffer or to feel depressed at times. And then learn to distinguish between the pain that is unavoidable and the suffering that we create for ourselves.
~ Henry Emmons
Sometimes you thought you had a thing—but then part of it—or all of it—always got away. Life itself could not be possessed, really, not even a minute of it.
~ Henry Farrell
You can find me in the frozen mood section.
~ Henry Rollins
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
~ Henry Rollins
No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.
~ Henry Rollins
We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.
~ Henry Rollins
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.
~ Henry Rollins
Will I ever meet someone That will take the bitter taste from my mouth? I am loneliness I wish I had someone to miss
~ Henry Rollins
She left an empty house in my heart. The lights don't work anymore, the heater's broken.
~ Henry Rollins
I wish I wasn't alive as much as you are dead
~ Henry Rollins
You used to frustrate me with your shallow embrace Now you don't make me feel anything
~ Henry Rollins
Have you ever experienced something so great That years later you regretted the whole thing Seeing the hole it left in you?
~ Henry Rollins
look at the phone thinking about calling out there There's no one to call Just voices Other worlds Sometimes I feel so thrown down So used up and vacant That I have to let time pass me by
~ Henry Rollins
But the father answered never a word,A frozen corpse was he.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz