Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it. — Mark Z. Danielewski
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his… — Flannery O'Connor
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room.… — Stephenie Meyer
For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest… — Iain Pears
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together… — Nikki Gemmell
I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely… — Marya Hornbacher
Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It… — Tom Perrotta
At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate… — David James Duncan
You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel… — John Banville
Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And… — Sarah Dessen
Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with… — Dante Alighieri
The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all… — Mary Balogh
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen
The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come. — David Markson
I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As… — S.J. Watson
When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk… — Jandy Nelson
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there.… — Haruki Murakami
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head. — Janet Fitch
This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do. — Margaret Atwood
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. — Carl Sagan
For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going… — C.S. Lewis
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness… — Fernando Pessoa
You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs,… — Kiran Desai

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