Quotes about Emptiness
I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing," he said. "Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
To perceive emptiness is to perceive raw sensory data without doing what we're naturally inclined to do: build a theory about what is at the heart of the data and then encapsulate that theory in a sense of essence.
— Robert Wright
My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.
— Soren Kierkegaard
My life is utterly meaningless
— Soren Kierkegaard
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
— Alice Hoffman
Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.
— Alice Hoffman
Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.
— Alice Hoffman