Quotes about Emptiness

I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well

Loneliness can drive even the most alienated person to attempt to make cotact with another soul, even when it's via a soullness medium.

Shelby has absolutely nothing inside of her. She's a black hole. A sinkhole. A whole lot of nothing. She's told Ben that, but he doesn't want to believe her. Who would have imagined he'd turn out to be such an optimist?

Even as I hold you I think of you as someone gone far, far away. Your eyes the color of pennies in a bowl of dark honey bringing sweet light to someone else your black hair slipping through my fingers is the flash of your head going around a corner your smile, breaking before me, the flippant last turn of a revolving door, emptying you out, changed, away from me. Even as I hold you I am letting go.

Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

Singing has to come from the inside, and i don't have anything left inside.' 'really?' Ruth said, amazed, 'How did that happen?' 'it all just drained out.

They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.

Paul heard his mother's grief and felt the emptiness within himself. I have no grief , he thought. Why? Why? He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.