Quotes tagged ‘Emptiness’

“[Sally's letter to Gillian] Sometimes I feel like there's a hole inside of me, an emptiness that at times seems to burn. I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. The moon tonight, there's a circle around it. Sign of trouble not far behind. I have this dream of b…”

— Robin Swicord, Akiva Goldsman, Adam Brooks, Sally Owens, Sandra Bullock, imdb.com

“Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com

“When you can bear your own emptiness - you are free.”

— Mooji, amazon.com

“There's simply no way of knowing how lonely and empty he is or whether he's as vacant and barren and loveless as the rest of us are.”

— William H. Gass, amazon.com

“You tell them they must puncture your chest with a straw to suck all the empty out.”

— Karyna McGlynn, theliteraryreview.org

“That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.”

— Damien Chazelle, Sebastian Wilder, Ryan Gosling, imdb.com

“Some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice, but still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now that they’re gone.”

— Frank Darabont, Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, Morgan Freeman, imdb.com

“I want to be afraid but it seems that these days I'm caught under water and I'm falling farther. My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father. Am I screaming to an empty sky?”

— Tyler Joseph, youtube.com

“Zelda: Now, we'll empty our minds. Hilda: That, I can do.”

— Nell Scovell, Hilda Spellman, Caroline Rhea, imdb.com

“Weird . . . People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me—and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless, I'll become.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“You have to abandon the empty, successful, shiny shell of a person you became in order to please your father, to win your selfish boyfriends, to gain your glamorous magazine jobs, and you have to look into the inky hot abyss of your soul and pull out this wretched, messy self that you fear.”

— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com

“I'm scared. As I told you, I'm completely empty. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? . . . Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Everything is there, but there are no parts. Since there are no parts, there's no need to replace one thing with another. No need to remove anything, or add anything. You don't have to think about difficult things, just let yourself soak it all in.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“'You know something?' she said. 'What?' 'I'm completely empty.' 'Yeah?' 'Yeah.'”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“It was hard to care...Incredibly hard to care, when you didn’t have anyone left to care about.”

— Sarah J. Maas, Celaena Sardothien, amazon.com

“‘Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go?’‘Maybe because I don’t really believe that it’s going to work and then I make sure that it doesn’t work.’”

— Anna and Oliver, Anna and Oliver, imdb.com

“I feel lonely for the sound of your voice.”

— Anne Clarke, amazon.com

“I know what it’s like. When you lose someone who is your home, you know, your only home in the world. When that happens, you think, oh f*ck! I should’ve had a backup home. Another person, a place a thing, something to make me feel safe and I don’t have that… and now I’m lost.”

— Charlie Countryman, wnq-writers.com

“I used to be fearless. I used to be invincible. But now my fingers are fumbling for the empty space of your outline on my bed sheets.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com

“She’s sitting right in front of me, but at the same time she’s a million miles away.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com