Quotes About Emptiness

if you could float when there was no room, no space anywhere, above, below, when you couldn't take a step without feeling the spongy give of rotting stuff beneath your feet. She

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

And since Ive lost you, Im lost too.

There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.

No matter how much time goes by, missing someone never gets any better. You just learn to work around it.

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Nell and Fen had chased away my thoughts of suicide. But what had they left me with? Fierce desires, a great tide of feeling of which I could make little sense, an ache that seemed to have no name but want. I want. Intransitive. No object. It was the opposite of wanting to die. But it was scarcely more bearable.

It is a subtle violence, the violence of absence.

I am wasting my life. I am wasting my life. I am wasting my life. It pounds like a heartbeat.

Well", he says finally. "There's a lot to be said for being unencumbered". He looks greedily around at the nothing of my life. "It's the scent of freedom in here, Casey. You won't be able to smell it till you've lost it.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters

Can you miss someone you've never known? Mary does.

I began to feel an emptiness, a hole that I needed to fill before I died.

Instead, I gradually shut down. I stopped socialising altogether. It was just too much effort. I didn't answer emails because I found I had nothing to say. Eventually I didn't even pick up the phone. I left the answer phone on as often as possible, then failed to return calls. Eventually there weren't any calls for me. I

Now they were merely trying to fill themselves up but not with the heart, not the soul. They'd lost both those along the way...

numbness between

Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.

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The arm of flesh will fail you," Bridie's grandmother had been fond of reminding her, especially after she'd started dating, bringing home this one and that one, going on and on about them. "Love with all your heart, . . . but don't look to anybody but the Lord to fill up your empty spots. There's never been a man born . . . who can do that, and I don't care if he's the finest thing since store-bought pickles.

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.

Don't want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away

And when you're feeling empty, keep me memory, and leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest

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