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Quotes About Emptiness

Summer: Sitting at home alone all day realizing how many friends you don't have.
~ Unknown
Death devours all lovely things.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.
~ Frederick Lenz
Unsubstantial Death is amorous.
~ William Shakespeare
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.
~ Mary Oliver
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
~ Richard Adams, Watership Down
Do you wanna play? Everyone's dead, so I got bored. Did you come to play with me?--Wrath
~ Hiromu Arakawa
I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.
~ Mark Slouka
Liz Emerson held so much darkness within her that closing her eyes didn't make much a difference at all.
~ Amy Zhang
This isolation, this deep pit in the bottom of my stomach, didn't have to hurt so much." - Aquamarine Rosabelle bonus included in Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears
~ Chamera Sampson
The pain we cause will haunt our memories and eat at our souls. I do not seek forgiveness, only the emptiness of death.
~ Harley King
The cold is lonely person's way of feeling alone and death
~ PureDragonWolf
At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.
~ Calista Lynne, We Awaken
My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.
~ Unknown
The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.
~ Unknown
He couldn't count them all. Nobody taught him how to count past ten. Such losses were beyond his comprehension.
~ J.U. Scribe, Before the Legend
I miss you with the very edge of my skin.It winces in absence, a giant muscle contracting.
~ Unknown
This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.
~ Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.
~ M.C. Frank, No Ordinary Star
Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.
~ Anthony Liccione
I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
~ Unknown
If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.
~ Amy Carmichael
it is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.
~ Johnnie Dent Jr.
Chip, she's gone, " and he said, "I thought I'd feel her looking down on us, but you're right. She's just gone
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska