Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you… — Haruki Murakami
Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long. — Veronica Roth
There is an emptiness inside of me -- a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as… — Hope Edelman
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I… — Paulo Coelho
We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our… — Thomas Merton
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained. — Stanislaw Lem
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. — David Foster Wallace
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air… — Karl Rahner
The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they… — Abbi Glines
What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the… — Jack Kerouac
I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you. — Abbi Glines
Valek's thoughts returned to Yelena. An icy finger of loneliness touched the emptiness inside him. She was in Sitia, where she needed to be to… — Maria V. Snyder
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness… — Galen Beckett
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its… — Elisabeth Elliot
Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do… — Lorrie Moore
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming,… — Alice Miller
From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness. — Larry McMurtry
But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly… — Kirsten Miller
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this?… — Susanna Kaysen
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. — Dejan Stojanovic
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? — Dejan Stojanovic
Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own… — Daniel H. Wilson
Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth… — Jeaniene Frost
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want… — Elizabeth Scott

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