Mental Void Quotes

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.

When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.