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Quotes About Emptiness

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.
~ Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
I was born with nothing and I still have nothing. And tomorrow is nothing.
~ Chimo, Lila Says
You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.
~ David Klass
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.
~ Morrissey
it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion
~ Joe Abercrombie
If you don't Understand the color of Darkness and Loneliness Then you must be Blind
~ Yaganesh Derasari
I leveled the gun and fired until it was empty.
~ Rachel Brady
Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
~ Watchman Nee
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
~ Kris Kristofferson
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
~ Johnny Cash
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
~ Laozi
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
~ Werner Herzog
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
~ Simone Weil
Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
~ Marilyn Monroe
You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.
~ Frederick Lenz
Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.
~ Frederick Lenz
The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
~ Laozi
The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.
~ Frederick Lenz
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.
~ Anne Frank
Those who are too arrogant to say thank you find boredom in life. They are often depressed, unhappy and lived an empty life.
~ Sesan Kareem
I am the queen of mediocre, the king of nothingness
~ Novellina A., Coppelia
This existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
~ Victor Frankl Auschwitz