Feeling Emptiness Quotes

12 quotes from 12 authors

When a hollow ache appears without a clear cause, these twelve voices map emptiness’s many shades. Some note sudden anxiety fits, others feel a lingering lack after success, and a few describe the ache of missing a mother’s presence. If this sparks curiosity, explore education research, child development, or school psychology for broader perspective.

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Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

James de la Vega

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“The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.”

Rae Armantrout

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The feeling of emptiness kills evry second though having surrounded by many people around

NiSs$H^^

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When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation…

Andrew Yang

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I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently…

Vincent Van Gogh

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How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that…

Claude Levi-Strauss

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“She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her…

Thomm Quackenbush

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I, myself, have tried following people around me, and I've got lost and ended up feeling emptiness rather than a sense of…

Jisoo

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“The feeling of emptiness enveloped me. It was so strange. One minute you're pregnant and the next you're not. I couldn't get…

Zara Phillips

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I would really like to be able to talk to my mother because there's always something missing. Even when I achieve something…

Joao Cancelo

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“Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence…

Saul Bellow

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“The feeling of emptiness is usually a sign that we have put our trust in something that can’t sustain us. It reminds…

Edward T. Welch

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