Quotes about Emptiness

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 solitude can be turned into prayer.

So that almost a doubt within me springs   Of Providence, such emptiness at length   Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God!   I measure back the steps which I have trod

I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.

I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time.

Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore.

Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore.

You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection, no more.

Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.

And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less-- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression, nothing to express. They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."