Emptiness quotes

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◆ It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

- Jonathan Safran Foer100

◆ It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

- Jackson Pearce99

◆ The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

- Jean Baudrillard99

◆ She'd said that revenge was not sweet, that it was bloody. She was wrong. It *was* sweet. For one fleeting, glorious moment you felt incredible satisfaction. Then it was gone, empty, and you had to go on living. The power high that filled me with her light had faded, and all I tasted now were bitter ashes.

- Sunny99

◆ I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.

- Kimberly Novosel99

◆ Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events that ultimately dries the soul and leaves the heart empty.

- Gonzalo Munévar99

◆ Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

- Jeanette Winterson99

◆ Empty packets of hot sauce remind me of the love I used to have for her. Now all I'm left with is this yummy taco.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

- Mark Z. Danielewski99

◆ This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

- Hillary Jordan99

◆ All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

- Sarah Dessen99

◆ He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

- David Foster Wallace99

◆ Feeling empty may be a sign of modern times, and a natural evolution of our needs.

- Selena Vera Hey99

◆ I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

- Stanis?aw Lem99