Quotes About Emptiness

The center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me.

I opened the coffin. I was surprised again, although again I shouldn't have been. I was surprised that Dad wasn't there. In my brain I knew he wouldn't be, obviously, but I guess my heart believed something else. Or maybe I was surprised by incredibly empty it was. I felt like I was looking into the dictionary definition of emptiness.

I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There's no invention to get around that. And so, I felt that night like the turtle that everything in the universe was on top of.

she saw through the shell of me into the center of me … She went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me

En el origen de toda historia yace siempre una ausencia

Love me, because love does not exist, and I tried everything.

In the emptiness of evenings, serious and unequivocal, he would say: "How beautiful is forgetting! what relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents!

Maybe it's true that you can use up all of your tears...It was nice to think about, because what I wanted was to be empty.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone.

The inside of life became far smaller than the outside, creating a cavity, an emptiness.

She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

gaura despre care incepea sa invete ca nu este exceptia in viata, ci regula. Gaura nu inseamna gol; golul exista in jurul ei.

That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

His words fell through him, trying to find the floor of his sadness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

She went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me.

I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?

The Suicide Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.