Quotes about Emptiness
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
- Edith Wharton
This intensification of inner life helped the prisoner find a refuge from the emptiness, desolation and spiritual poverty of his existence, by letting him escape into the past.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
- Viktor E. Frankl
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
- Virginia Woolf
There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room.
- Virginia Woolf
At this moment, I feel as if the human race had no character at all — sought for nothing, believed in nothing, & fought only from a dreary sense of duty.
- Virginia Woolf
Empty, empty, empty, silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
- Virginia Woolf
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
- Charles Spurgeon
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
- Virginia Woolf
[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens.
- Thomas Merton
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
- Oscar Wilde
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
- Cormac McCarthy