Quotes About Emptiness

The candor of Ann's absolute nakedness, not caught in unselfconsciousness like a young nude in a romantic painting, but fully aware of her erotic power, roused in Evelyn an arrogance of body, a lust that burned through her nerves like the fire of the sun they both stood in. This was the freedom she wanted, an animal freedom exposed to the emptiness of sky and land and water.

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.

And he felt so lonely so close up to the sky, not the rewarding and proud loneliness he had felt when driving the train at night across the plains, but an unforgiving and harsh emptiness, as if he had been rejected by earth and sky and must stay forever now in the between gulf, tired and afraid.

Death steals a part of you.

My heart was already cracked, but this one word, gone, was the stone that broke it.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

And just as simply as that, it was over. She was no longer a student in the local town. She was a graduate. An adult. She thought she should feel something. Older.Wiser. But she felt nothing but a strange emptiness. An inner knowledge that she was now on the edge of the nest, ready to try her own wings

Hi, Dane. Miss me?" He let out a laugh that sounded more ironic than amused. "Every day. And especially when it rains.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~

A bare black hole is pure empty spacetime—no atoms, light, strings, or particles of any kind, dark or bright. It's empty space—or, in physics slang, the vacuum.

Vielä senkin kestää että ystävästä tulee vihamies, mutta ei sitä, että mies on äkkiä kuin tyhjä rengas.

Juovuksissa taas, ja onko olemassa muuta kuin ikävä tyhjyydestä pois.

To feel that you aren't important to your mother leaves a hole. Most often it is felt as a hole in the heart. It's the hole where Mother was supposed to be.

I don't think I have a happy place. This possibility makes me ache.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

After vacancy has dusted off the cobwebs of our unsettled recollections, we reach out one more time

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just an empty space. You went back to where you came from just a few years ago.