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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Correspondance

    This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.
    book-quotenothingspaceweakness

  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.
    book-quotehopepainsoulless

  3. Jonathan Franzen _ Farther Away

    The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.
    book-quotesuicidesatisfactionloneliness

  4. Alan Brennert _ Moloka'i

    An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have
    book-quoteseaemptinesssuffocate

  5. Daniel Defoe _ The True-Born Englishman: A

    When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
    book-quotegoodpurposenothing

  6. Katherine Paterson _ Lyddie

    My heart is heavy, she thought. It's not just a saying. It is what is-heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness."
    book-quotesadnessemptinessheavy-hearted

  7. Jean-Paul Sartre _ The Age of Reason

    But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. "Swine!" He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.
    book-quotephilosophyemptiness

  8. Tom Robbins _ Fierce Invalids Home from Hot

    Meditation," said his teacher, "hasn't got a damn thing to do with anything, 'cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn't develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It's then and exactly then that you're sensing the true nature of the universe, you're linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you're content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there's the only place to be.
    book-quotespiritualitypeacenothingness

  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ Doctor Sally

    Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?''Oh, rather!''What do you do about it?''I generally take a couple of cocktails.
    book-quotehumorlonelinesssorrow

  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ Doctor Sally

    Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?''Oh, rather!''What do you do about it?''I generally take a couple of cocktails.
    book-quotesoulhumorsorrow

  11. Anne Lamott _ Plan B: Further Thoughts on

    Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is the cousin to grief, and both take time: you can't short-circuit grief, or emptiness, and you can't patch it up with your bicycle tire tube kit. You have to take the next right action.
    book-quotehopegrieftime

  12. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    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.
    book-quotenormalcystillnessemptiness
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