Quotes about Emptiness
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
Death is not a lover.
— Cormac McCarthy
Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
— Cormac McCarthy