It would please him well enough to amount to no more in…

“Long life wore away everything that was not essential.”

— Michael Chabon

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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 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

“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

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

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

— Marshall Savage

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

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects…

— Brian Morton