"I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that."
- Charles Bukowski
"A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room."
- Per Petterson
"He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even..."
- John Banville
"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a ter..."
- Mehmet Murat ildan
"Awareness is absence of seaking."
- Bert McCoy
"God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know ..."
- Shannon L. Alder
"And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony."
- D.R. Hedge
"The world is a navy in an empty ocean."
- Dejan Stojanovic
"To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious str..."
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
"Time went by and there wasn’t even sadness.“You know how another patient put it? She said this feeling inside her was . . . it was anti-feeling. Like a black hole in space, and everything—happiness, a..."
- Rebecca Podos