Quotes About Emptiness

Something within her, calm and apparently rational, was thinking that it was impossible for her to continue living without him, that she needed him as she needed air. She did not believe that she could bear the loneliness of being in this world without him.

Absolute equals nothingness.

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing.

From everything, nothing looks to nothing.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

Just when you seem to yourself nothing but a flimsy web of questions, you are given the questions of others to hold in the emptiness of your hands, songbird eggs that can still hatch if you keep them warm, butterflies opening and closing themselves in your cupped palms, trusting you not to injure their scintillant fur, their dust. You are given the questions of others as if they were answers to all you ask. Yes, perhaps this gift is your answer.

That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.

when you see everything, you realize that nothing means anything

When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

The expression 'I miss you' in English becomes 'Vous me manquez' in French, which literally means 'You're missing from me'. In my view, it's a wonderful way to express the emptiness in your self when you truly miss someone.

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

You promise?" "I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

Learning to live again without you is killing me.