Quotes about Emptiness

Soon you'll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most—and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. Dogs snarling at each other. Quarreling children—laughing and then bursting into tears a moment later. Trust, shame, justice, truth—"gone from the earth and only found in heaven." Why are you still here? Sensory objects are shifting and unstable; our senses dim and easily deceived

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

Every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

The air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy.

To be devoid of love is the essence of hell.

For Nature and Creature, without the Christ of God or the Divine Life in Union with it, is and can be nothing else but this mere Emptiness, Hunger, and Want of all that which can alone make it good and happy.

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

My life is utterly meaningless