Quotes About Emptiness

to live means to lack something at every moment

Ces jours qui te semblent vides Et perdus pour l'univers Ont des racines avides Qui travaillent les déserts

Sentimentul de a fi tot si evidenta de a nu fi nimic.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Loneliness is not the worst emotion

Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness

You know there isn't much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.

There was nothing to imagine with a gun except something that was dead.

You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real?

It was terrible to feel so empty, as if I were nothing. Why couldn't I be happy? And just what was happines anyway?

I might just crawl under my bed and not come out until I'm old and doddering and can't remember feeling anything for anyone at all.

For seven years Ernest had been not so much in my heart and mind as in my very blood cells. And now I would have to learn to live without him. How? Where could one learn to do that kind of amputation, and walk away alive, and still be the same person?

then, hardly daring to breathe, lowered myself onto him. But it was too late. Before I had even begun to move, he softened inside me. I tried to kiss him, but he wouldn't meet my eyes.

I wasn't nearly so clever. More and more I found myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

though I leaned against him and tried to meet the kiss and to take it in, I couldn't quite feel it. I couldn't feel us. —

Mine hadn't, and neither had Cameron's. All the scars I still carry, she carries, too. Trust issues, attachment trouble, identity problems, feelings of emptiness, isolation, alienation, and despair—cracks in the soul that can't be mended. I've seen it. I've lived it. How anyone with a hole inside them will search on and on, sometimes all their lives, for ways to fill it.

How anyone with a hole inside them will search on and on, sometimes all their lives, for ways to fill it.

We were surrounded by people on the platform, but we were entirely alone.

These hands hold nothing. They love most what is wild. They invite no pity

Lookin' at ye is like baskin' in the summer sun after a long, cold winter. 'Tis like seein' home after a battle that's left ye empty and alone." He kissed her mouth, her nose, her eyes. "I dinna' know how 'tis possible, but each time I see ye, ye grow more beautiful to me.

I just remember that everything looked the same-all style and no substance

Horton could tell instantly there was no one in the house, dead or alive. Death left a place much colder than this, you could smell it, taste it, and sense it. It crept up your flesh, quickened your breath, and sent your pulse racing to cope with the first shock of meeting it. But this house was empty, just a shell.

But first my feet will freeze and then my legs and then my insides, they will all turn to ice. And my blood, too, and my heart, and I will forget.

She's silent a lot these days, thought Tully. Not just quiet, for Tally spent many quiet years in Jennifer's company, but silent. Like a voice stopped talking inside Jennifer's head and she was just sitting around waiting for her body to go silent as well. Like a TV with the sound permanently off.