Quotes About Emptiness

Life without vision is like a frame without a picture, it holds nothing.

When you lose someone or something close to you, you feel that they've taken a part of you with them. Let this feeling of loss be a good one, that person or something meant a lot to you and that's all that matters.

You can't lose what yo never had, you can't keep what not yours, and you can't hold on to something that doesn't want to stay.

Nobody wants to hear this, but sometimes we have to accept the fact that the person we want the most is the person we're best without...

With silence I hear things louder. When I close my eyes I see things clearer. When I let go and just empty myself, I feel fuller. When I think about dying any minute, I feel alive.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

What happened to you always being there. Tell me where you are now.

You get used to someone being there for you, being your bestfriend, you have feelings. Then they just leave. You feel empty.

You killed what was left of the good in me. I'm tired so let me be broken. Look down at the mess that's in front of me. No other words needs to be spoken.

Hate that feeling you get when you know someone has used you.

We trust in love as we trust in life, without thinking of the underlying emptiness, without too much believing in it. We go on loving because we are starving for affection. We want to enjoy its sustenance, and leave it at that. Thus we begin again not once but many times.

Be nothing. Be not the spider nor the man nor the future nor the past. Be the moment. Be nothing.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Vane diventano le parole ripetute troppe volte.

There is no place more lonely Than a rich man's home.

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys.

I love silence but I fear emptiness.

It is only, she thought, that I thought you brought my bear, and life lit up for a moment. And now it is returned to its usual dimness, which truly I had thought was bright enough for me.

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.