#emptiness

"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

"It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty."

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

"His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul."

"If you need me I’ll be sitting over there, on the ground, next to the empty chair. The emptiness always reminds me of your love."

"I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint."

"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."

"It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us."

"An empty coffee cup is full of hope. Now there’s something worth voting for."

"Empty packets of hot sauce remind me of the love I used to have for her. Now all I’m left with is this yummy taco."

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."