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Quotes About Emptiness

For you, nothing is ever enough. Your hunger for love is so great and the hole so unfilled that everything gets swallowed up inside.
~ Paullina Simons
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
~ Paulo Coelho
A nós, gente, só foi dada essa maldita capacidade, transformar amor em nada.
~ Unknown
A veces te duele más el vacío del futuro que del pasado.
~ Unknown
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
~ Peggy Noonan
Sandi couldn't bear to read about other people falling in love and having babies while her own arms and worms were so painfully empty.
~ Unknown
Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
She felt as if she'd always been holding a part of herself back, saving it, and she had a terrible fear she would end up saving it forever. That she would die with whole parts of herself unused.
~ Penelope Williamson
Ik hoorde hoe flauw ik klonk. Als iemand die wel praat maar niets zegt.
~ Unknown
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
~ Per Petterson
Alas! that all we loved of him should be,But for our grief, as if it had not been,And grief itself be mortal!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate?
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
a genius of means, barren of ends
~ Unknown
All in all, he felt more milked than loved.
~ Unknown
she had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or life from leaving her.
~ Peter Cameron
it was simply the solar system's colder version of hell.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.
~ Peter Høeg
Horror is something perfectly natural: the mind's emptiness. A thought is taking shape, then suddenly it notices that there is nothing more to think. Whereupon it crashes to the ground like a figure in a comic strip who suddenly realises that he has been walking on air.
~ Peter Handke
There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.
~ Peter Hedges
I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.
~ Peter Hedges
Great loss is felt by no one
~ Peter Hedges
So. You want to die. No, I mean, you don't even want to go through the hassle of dying. You wish you didn't exist. If only you could disappear
~ Peter Hedges
Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.
~ Peter Heller
Ero un guscio. Vuoto. Accostami all'orecchio e senti il rombo lontano di un oceano fantasma.
~ Peter Heller