logo

Quotes About Emptiness

At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep, there must be fullness somewhere.
~ Erica Jong
Children are no antidote to loneliness.
~ Erica Jong
Era come se lo stomaco pensasse di essere il cuore. E non importava quanto lo riempissi... di uomini, di libri, di cibo, di biscotti allo zenzero a forma di uomo, di poesie a forma di uomo e di uomini a forma di poesie... rifiutava di calmarsi. Senza fondo... ecco com'era. Ninfomania del cervello. Denutrizione del cuore.
~ Erica Jong
Znów idÄ™ ciemnym korytarzem. Na podeÅ›cie dociera do mnie, co od niedawna przypomina mi to miejsce: mieszkanie ma taki sam rozkÅ'ad jak moje, pokoje w amfiladzie, biurko w gÅ'Ä™bi. Jest niejako jego pustym bli?niakiem. Zabawne...
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I? Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.
~ Erich Fromm
Greed?has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
~ Erich Fromm
I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.
~ Erich Fromm
Indeed the alienated person finds it almost impossible to remain by himself, because he is seized by the panic of experiencing nothingness.
~ Erich Fromm
Nothing that comes through synthesizrs can fix you, or give you your fix. Nothing here.
~ Amanda Boyden
Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.
~ Amanda Heggs
It was dark inside that box. Not the blackness of night, but a complete absence of light.
~ Amanda Stevens
Tant que j'étais là-bas, je me sentais incapable de partir. Maintenant que je suis loin, je me sens totalement incapable de revenir. Je suis comme le rescapé d'un naufrage. J'avais du mal à sauter du navire qui prenait l'eau, mais maintenant que je n'y suis plus, il ne me viendrait pas à l'esprit de remonter à son bord.
~ Amin Maalouf
There is no chance for other matter in the stomach of a hungry person.
~ Amos Tutuola
She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.
~ Amy Bloom
Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.
~ Amy Efaw
I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
~ Amy Hempel
Fred was trying to preserve that special connection that children have with God, their absolute trust and acceptance, and at the same time, he was trying to loose their parents from the prison-house. For Fred, the prison-house included the "stuff" that we collect to fill up our lives, things like new cars and new houses that have left us empty as we've grown and matured into "adults" just like the ones the Little Prince met along the way.
~ Amy Hollingsworth
I'm trying to follow all the steps and check all the boxes. But my heart hurts and my skin aches, and God, I just want to be touched…….Can you touch me and then look at me tomorrow, and it will be okay?
~ Amy Lane
It's like... I don't see in color anymore, you know? I look at something and I think I know what it looks like, and then I think about what the world would look like without Deacon, and it goes to black and white.
~ Amy Lane
Walking away from you was like walking away from the best part of me. I almost didn't recognize him.Walking away from you was like walking away from the best part of me. I almost didn't recognize him.
~ Amy Lane
Someday, he thought as he went under, he really would sleep forever. Waking up was just too damned much trouble. Without Kelly, everything was. When Your Head is in the Stars, You're Everywhere "KELLY, HE'S crying.
~ Amy Lane
All alone in an empty room.
~ Amy Lane
I missed you like I'd miss a lung, a kidney, and my right hand.
~ Amy Lane
opened my heart, it filled with love, with sex, with power, with new. With every door I pulverized, I knew I'd be missing you. All alone in an empty room.
~ Amy Lane