Quotes About Emptiness

Your life would be empty indeed if you didn't regret anything.

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

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His empty heart is full at length, But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn't want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn't here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

You came back to us in a dream and we were not here.

Of course there is nothing the matter with the starsIt is my emptiness among themWhile they drift farther away in the invisible morning.

I think I was cold in the womb.

We keep asking where they have gone those years we remember and we reach for them like hands in the night

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

Were all stars to disappear and die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. —W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

In the cities the birds are forgotten among other things but then one could say that the cities are made of absences of what disappeared so they could be there

Seperation Your absence has gone trough me like thread trough a needle. Everything I do is stiched with it's color.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

I was desperate to discover what nothing felt like. It was the absence of something that attracted me. It was the start. Everything important originated with nothingness.