Quotes About Emptiness

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...

We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

además, comenzaban a ver en él esa vejez anormal, excesiva, vergonzosa y merecida de los solteros, de todas las personas para las cuales parece que el gran día que no tiene día siguiente sea más largo que para los demás, porque para ellos está vacío y los momentos van adicionándose desde la mañana sin llegar a dividirse después entre los hijos.

To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style!" PLACE-NAMES:

She wept over the vanity of her desires, which had so ardently flown to the blossoming flesh that now had already withered forever.

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer. - Milton.

Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154

When we love and allow ourselves to be loved, we begin more and more to inhabit the kingdom of the eternal. Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plentitude, and distance becomes intimacy.

Mero conhecimento e falta de amor nos levam a uma formalidade vazia. Amor exagerado e falta de conhecimento levam à superstição.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

screamed the scream of the abandoned

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too," I said. "And you wait around for your body to catch up."-

So many people go through life without love. Wanting love. Hoping for love. Hungering for more of it than they have. Missing love when it was gone.

The body can survive while the soul dies.

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass.

There's no thing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of a postage stamp.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? [...] How if you wake up in the night and know -and know the willow tree's not there? Can you live without the willow tree? Well, no, you can't. The willow tree is you

A light in the daytime is a lonely thing.

The houses were vacant, and a vacant house falls quickly apart.

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all

Even if teen-age children aren't making a sound, it's quieter when they're gone. They put a boiling in the air around them.