Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that… — Roberto Bolano
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. — William Faulkner
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep,… — Haruki Murakami
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's… — Nicholas Sparks
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and… — Pope Benedict XVI
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be… — Carl Jung
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… — Charles Baudelaire
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by… — Ernest Hemingway
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on… — Joyce Carol Oates
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old? — Stewart O'Nan
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was… — Arundhati Roy
the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a… — Jean Baudrillard
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness… — Amy Tan
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being… — Pascal Mercier
She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness. — Tina St. John
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. — Raymond Chandler
The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his… — Dag Hammarskjold
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something… — Denis Johnson
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. — Haruki Murakami

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