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Quotes About Emptiness

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty seven to Yass,' he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it
~ Melina Marchetta
can you see what I see? No I don't think you can I can see images of nothing and I attempt to make that nothingness into something As hard as I try there is still nothing and that nothing is meaningless I am somewhere else now, outside I am surrounded by people and the blueness of the sky but still nothing has changed Everything remains the same I am still alone
~ Melina Marchetta
I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
~ Melina Marchetta
I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there.
~ Melina Marchetta
It's not that I miss my mother. It's just that I miss the idea of what one would be.
~ Melina Marchetta
I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around.
~ Melina Marchetta
And when I finish speaking, I kiss her cheek and I take away the tray. And it's empty. That's how we begin.
~ Melina Marchetta
For there's nothing to say when you're dead to the world.
~ Melina Marchetta
But no one came back
~ Melina Marchetta
Because I miss it like you'd never believe, and then I go away from this place and I miss here too. I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.
~ Melina Marchetta
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
~ Melissa Bank
A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.
~ Melissa Kantor
I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so far away that you didn't care about it? You were floating through space and time, and nothing that happened to you mattered because nothing really could happen to you because you didn't exist?
~ Melissa Kantor
Invariably pure and austere, poets mostly starve to death embracing empty mountains, and when white clouds have no master, they just drift off, idle thoughts carefree.
~ Unknown
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
~ Merle Shain
Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.
~ Mervyn Peake
After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.
~ Mia Couto
A saudade é um morcego cego que falhou fruto e mordeu a noite.
~ Mia Couto
Não existe terra, existem mares que estão vazios.
~ Mia Couto
Lo que ha sucedido es que, con el tiempo, he dejado de estar a la expectativa. Y quien deja de estar a la expectativa es porque ya ha dejado de vivir. Y por eso es por lo que huyo: tengo miedo de ser devorada. No por la ansiedad que habita en mí. Devorada por el vacío de no amar. Devorada por el deseo de ser amada.
~ Mia Couto
Aquele lugar lhe deixava um frio interior. Afinal, todos queremos no peito o nó de um outro peito, o devolver da metade que perdemos ao nascer.
~ Mia Couto
Il tenente Dumbar non era realmente inghiottito. Ma quella fu la prima parola che gli si fissò in mente. Tutto era immenso. Quel vasto cielo azzurro senza una nube. Quell'oceano d'erba che ondeggiava al vento. Null'altro, fino a dove riusciva a spingere lo sguardo. Non una pista, non una traccia di sochi lasciati da altre ruote che il carro potesse seguire. Solo lo spazio, assoluto e vuoto
~ Unknown
We sometimes enjoy people's presence most when we register their absence.
~ Unknown