--- title: "8 Empty Quotes By Nicole Krauss" description: "8 Empty quotes by Nicole Krauss. Plus more from Nicole Krauss and more Empty sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92f/nicole-krauss-920_empty_at-the-most-simplistic-level-physicists_176963.png" --- > [At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/at-the-most-simplistic-level-physicists-tell-us-that-what-we-see-as/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92f/nicole-krauss-920_empty_at-the-most-simplistic-level-physicists_176963.png) > [If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/if-it-weren-t-for-her-there-would-never-have-been-an-empty-space-or/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81b/nicole-krauss-920_empty_if-it-weren-t-for-her-there-would-never_677210.png) > [“Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/sooner-or-later-she-ll-figure-out-the-truth-you-re-a-shell-of-a-man/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d6/nicole-krauss-920_empty_sooner-or-later-she-ll-figure-out-the-tr_1896432.png) > [At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/at-times-i-believed-that-the-last-page-of-my-book-and-the-last-page/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/nicole-krauss-920_air_at-times-i-believed-that-the-last-page-o_1991411.png) > [Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/empty-teacups-gathered-around-her-and-dictionary-pages-fell-at-her/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/nicole-krauss-920_dictionary_empty-teacups-gathered-around-her-and-di_1998091.png) > [She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-was-gone-and-all-that-was-left-was-the-space-you-d-grown-around/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f6/nicole-krauss-920_empty_she-was-gone-and-all-that-was-left-was-t_2765913.png) > [All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/all-my-life-i-have-arrived-early-only-to-find-myself-standing-self/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/nicole-krauss-920_death_all-my-life-i-have-arrived-early-only-to_3088078.png) > [Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/sometimes-waking-early-before-the-others-wandering-the-rooms-wrapped/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b78/nicole-krauss-920_blanket_sometimes-waking-early-before-the-others_3228053.jpg) ## Other authors on Empty ## More by Nicole Krauss > [“Narrative cannot sustain formlessness any more than light can sustain darkness - it is the antithesis of formlessness, and so it can never truly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/narrative-cannot-sustain-formlessness-any-more-than-light-can-sustain/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-think-of-novels-as-houses-you-live-in-them-over-the-course-of-a/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/when-we-went-into-the-ocean-i-watched-his-body-as-he-dove-into-the/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/there-are-times-when-the-kindness-of-strangers-only-makes-matter/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-was-gone-and-all-that-was-left-was-the-space-where-you-d-grown/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you change again. You become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-air-felt-different-in-my-lungs-the-world-no-longer-looked-the/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/the-first-language-humans-had-was-gestures-there-was-nothing/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust the reader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-feel-really-strongly-about-not-wanting-to-overly-guide-the-reader/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/mom-i-said-she-turned-can-i-talk-to-you-about-something-of-course/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [In one's youth, one has tremendous access to one's feelings. And as one gets older, some of those feelings kind of drift away. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/in-one-s-youth-one-has-tremendous-access-to-one-s-feelings-and-as-one/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/obviously-i-ve-been-reading-kafka-for-a-long-long-time-since-i-was/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“She's kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she's turned life away. Sometimes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/she-s-kept-her-love-for-him-as-alive-as-the-summer-they-first-met-in/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/sometimes-no-length-of-string-is-long-enough-to-say-the-thing-that/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“Doesn’t part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/doesn-t-part-of-the-awe-that-fills-us-when-we-confront-the-unknown/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) > [“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are no rules,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-krauss/i-knew-how-to-raise-my-own-child-what-did-he-think-it-was-a-game-of/) [Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-krauss/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/empty/nicole-krauss/#itemlist", "name": "8 Empty Quotes By Nicole Krauss", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. 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