The world, the human world, is bound together not by…

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong,…

— Tracy Thompson

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the…

— Whitley Strieber

In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into…

— Marshall Savage

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after…

— J. M. Coetzee

“To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its…

— Edwin Honig

“He had become blank, but there was not the expectation of something blank, like a page or a canvas; there was not the hope…

— Brooke Davis

“But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line…endless monotony.…

— L.M. Montgomery

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the…

— George Orwell

“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was…

— Diana Gabaldon

“It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness…

— Michael Chabon

“She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace note announcing…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Let It Go It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The more things happen to you the more you can't Tell…

— William Empson

“At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath…

— Adam Gopnik

Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of…

— Sharon Salzberg