“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.”— Susan Sontag, amazon.com
“Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.”— Yasmin Mogahed, twitter.com
“We are like broken cups. We have the most to give when we are empty. When we can no longer hold what's been poured into us— we become love.”— Sakura Rain, twitter.com
“I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“When I look at him, I saw a thousand empty rooms and in each one, there he was, strangling a ghost.”— M.Hollow (@miahollow), instagram.com
“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Not even the human imagination satisfies the endless emptiness of the soul.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual ni…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“If you can overcome 10 men, you can overcome 1,000 with 10. If you can overcome 1,000 you can overcome 10,000 with 1,000. How you handle individuals (and problems) is how your organization will. One man becomes an army.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“Think of your adversaries as your own soldiers, understanding that you should do with them as you wish, intending to manipulate them freely. You are the commander, the opponents are the troops. This takes work.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com