Quotes About Emptiness

The thing about games is that you don't want to look too closely at why you're playing them. A great yawning emptiness underlies them, a close relative of the nothingness that lies beneath the surface of our busy lives.

Two empty hours were a sinus in which infections bred.

To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing.

Nowhere is more nowhere than this place, I agree.

Mother died when he was twelve. He did not want sympathy, he only wanted her back.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

You can't love anything more than something you miss.

Why I'm Not Where You Are

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

Sadness of love without release.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.

I've raised my voice at a human only twice in my entire life. Both times at the same human. Put differently: I've known only one human in my entire life. Put differently: I've allowed only one human to know me.

an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

I hit the spacebar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.