Quotes About Emptiness

Non mi curavo di nulla, e d'altronde nulla si curava di me.

The odd thing is that only lonely people have a tendency to festoon their abodes with extravagant items.

It was a bright, quiet garden, without striking features. Like a rosary rubbed between the hands, the shrilling of cicadas held sway. There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a place that had no memories, nothing. The noontide sun of summer flowed over the still garden.

There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a place with no memories, nothing. The noontide sun of summer flowered over the still garden.

Just to exist was more than enough to satisfy me. In the first place, doesn't uneasiness about one's existence spring precisely from a sort of luxurious dissatisfaction at the thought that one may not be living fully?

Good thing I brought my haze of emptiness!

A person who does not crave cannot suffer. According

I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. ReddedilmiÅŸ hiçlik taraf?ndan boÅŸlukla tan??t?r?ld?m.

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled 'the past,' and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself.

I felt as if I were in an exiled and floating world, isolated from all necessities of life except the one of buying things.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

So, this is retirement? This feeling of emptiness?

The utterly empty bottle of his soul.

A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts.

We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love.

For those times when I wanted to blank out parts of my life or when I was dealing with some depression, there was nothing better than heroin. Nothing.

For Lacan, desire is what simultaneously defines us as human subjects and what prevents us from ever being whole or complete. To desire something, after all, is to lack something.

She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Sometimes the most important and powerful element is an absence, a lack, a burnished space in your mind that glows and aches as you try to fill it.