Everything means nothing that is the only truth.
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.
The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.
Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.
The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.
I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Nothingness haunts Being.
To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
