#emptiness

I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop. ↗

— M.B. Wilmot

#human-nature #humanity #racism #rage #nature

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#metaphor #silence #silence

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

#emptiness #normalcy #numbness #stillness #chaos

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjöld

#self #zen #zen

Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To put it into your terms, it's a currency that's easily devalued. Pretty soon you're saying it whenever you hang up the phone or whenever you leave. It turns into an apology. Then it's an excuse. Some assholes want it to be a bulletproof vest: don't hate me; I love you. But mostly it just means--more. More, more--give me something more. A couple of years from now, when you're on your own completely, if you really fall in love, if it really comes to that--and I pity you if it does--you have to look right down into the black of her eyes, right down into the emptiness in there and feel everything, absolutely everything she needs and you have to be willing to drown in it, Kevin. You'd have to want to be crushed, buried alive. Because that's what real love feels like--choking. They used to bury some women in their wedding dresses, you know. I thought it was because all those husbands were too cheap to spring for another gown, but now it makes sense: love is your first foot in the grave. That's why the second most abused word is "forever". ↗

— Peter Craig

#forever #love #love

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #emptiness #empty #literature #literature-quotes

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#emptiness #nothing #nothingness

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#empty #full #i #life #look

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. ↗