Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the… — Alexandra Ripley
Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's… — Haruki Murakami
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological… — Jack Kerouac
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:… — Galway Kinnell
Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was… — Francine Rivers
Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy. — Jeanette Winterson
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even… — Ayn Rand
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to… — Edith Wharton
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,… — Angela Carter
a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. — Pope Benedict XVI
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be… — Marguerite Duras
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. — Margaret Atwood
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness… — Louise Erdrich
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what… — Lloyd Alexander
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Jon Krakauer
Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the… — Banana Yoshimoto
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom… — Anne Lamott
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine… — George Orwell
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises — Unknown Author
In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by… — Jeffrey Eugenides
We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people… — Charles Bukowski

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