Quotes About Emptiness

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

She didn't say yes or no; she said nothing in a rush of words. After she had rung off, it began. Slowly at first. Like fog wisping into his mind. Only a small doubt. He could, at first, brush it away. But it moved in thicker; tightening around the coils of his brain, blotting out reason.

He waited for her to say more but only silence roiled about them.

Viola settled into the rocker, situated Goldie in the crook of her left arm and gave her the bottle. The chair quietly creaked out its ageless message of calm and comfort as she set it in motion. But it didn't reach the empty spot inside her.

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in close contact with someone to whom she was a nonperson, and who thereby rendered her invisible and of no consequence.

She looked at Farrell because there was nothing else to look at.

He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.

I sometimes think people can see that I'm defective, that there's nothing there. Behind the job and clothes and makeup there's nothing to know. I sometimes think I'm this shell and I can't work out why people like me. And when I'm with strangers it reminds me of that. That I'm insubstantial.

In Zen training the hungry ghost realm ... presents as the attempt to "get" emptiness. "I needed so much to have nothing to touch," sings Leonard Cohen, "I've always been greedy this way.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

But every time an artist dies young, Kurt Cobain or whatever, it's always the people -- "It's so sad, he had so much more to give." How do you know? Maybe he was out of shit. He got all the money, he did all the drugs, he fucked all your holes, and that's the American Dream. And when you're done with that, you go, "Oh, that's why they call it a dream. It's bullshit. I'm still empty.

On the desert, there was no October; there was only summer and hell. "Where

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

I just hope that you miss me a little when Im gone.

When the lights dont glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything Im missing and youll tell me youre in love with someone else.

I havent slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways.

The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.