Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

When he is alone in a room, there is nobody there.

My personal life is fairly barren.

There is nothing else to do in my life... I have no family, relationships - this is the only thing that I do.

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping.

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.