Quotes About Emptiness

That was the first time in my life that I knew the meaning of despair. I read, I worked, I drank, I whored, but came the morning after and I was always me, by myself.

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

Everyone is "extremely nice"—and yet I feel entirely alone. ("Abandonitis").

A conjuring trick has taken place; it has turned reality inside out, it has emptied it of history and has filled it with nature, it has removed from things their human meaning so as to make them signify a human insignificance. The function of myth is to empty reality: it is, literally , a ceaseless flowing out, a haemorrhage, or perhaps an evaporation, in short a perceptible absence

Finally, and inevitably, the flat universe will further flatten into a nothingness that mirrors its beginning. Not only will there be no cosmologists to look out on the universe, there will be nothing for them to see even if they could. Nothing at all. Not even atoms. Nothing. If you think that's bleak and cheerless, too bad. Reality doesn't owe us comfort.

I'd lost something I never knew I'd had.

At that moment I knew I would miss her forever. I felt empty. I had lost something I never knew I had.

The door closed behind her and the room was suddenly quiet. It felt empty, with just a hint of her perfume to remind me she'd been there.

I sat there in the armchair and felt bad. I'd lost something I never knew I'd had.

empty place opposite with eyes too

The house was closed up and empty. Locked doors, shaded windows, no broken glass. No burglars, no squatters. No feral Rose Sanderson, going to earth in a place she remembered.

Then a slow mile later such places started thinning out, in favor of vacant lots and piney woods, and a sense of empty vastness ahead.

absolute stillness. The highway was deserted. There was no traffic.

completely deserted.

His sadness seemed complete. It had left him nothing, no proper enjoyment, no Saturday mornings. Sadness wore him like a tailored suit.

the knife of my mind I have no present. I have only a past and, perhaps, a future. The present has been taken from me. I'm left in an empty space whose darkness I carve at with the knife of my mind. I must carve myself anew out of the razor-wire nothingness. I will know the ecstasy and the pain of freedom. I will be ordinary again. Yes, ordinary, that terrifying condition, where all is possibility, where the present exists and must be faced.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

But in the dark everything was unnatural; the silence and the darkness were in themselves something like death.

Nobody took care of Lazarus, he no longer had any relatives or friends, and the great desert, which embraced the holy city, approached the very threshold of his dwelling place. And she came into his house, and she sprawled across his bed, like a wife, and she extinguished the fires.

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My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

Gleichgültigkeit! Gleichgültigkeit an die Stelle der Liebe? - Das heißt, Nichts an die Stelle von Etwas.

You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead -- There were no birds to fly.

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