“[With] my life on the line...little sissy things never even occurred to me...When one is in full combat gear, one does not think of the small things.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“Knowing that mentality, taking straight forwardness as basic, taking the real mind as the Way, practicing martial arts in the broadcast senses, thinking correctly, clearly and comprehensively, taking emptiness as the Way, you see the Way as emptiness. In emptiness, there is good but no evil. Wisdom…”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“Do you think grief is anything like depression? Go with grief. It's better. In grief you're at least feeling a rich, deep feeling. In depression you don't even have that, it's just that awful feeling of nullity.”— Dick Cavett, nytimes.com
“Missing someone feels like hunger. An insatiable emptiness right at the core of yourself.”— Andrew Pyper, amazon.com
“I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.”— Stanisław Lem, 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
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com
“You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend our…”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”— Myra McEntire, amazon.com
“At times I hardly can believe in you. Except this ache, this longing in my gut, this emptiness which theorizes you because if there is emptiness this deep,there must be fullness somewhere.”— Erica Jong, amazon.com
“WE need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us — and we will (without any malice) do the same to them. There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness.”— Alain de Botton, nytimes.com
“Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.”— R. M. Drake, facebook.com
“I am not hungry, but I will eat because my stomach is the kind of empty I can fill.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com