{"quotes":[{"text":"Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["alone","empty","emptyness","nothingness"],"id":25781,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.","author":"Per Petterson","tags":["death","dogs","emptyness","lonely","sad","silence"],"id":76777,"author_id":"Per+Petterson"},{"text":"You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they’re divorced. It’s like you grow up knowing that you’re missing something important that everyone else has, but you don’t know exactly what it is. I remember hearing my friends talking about how their fathers wouldn't let them stay out late or didn't like their boyfriends. It used to make me so angry because they didn't even realize what they had. Do you know what I mean?","author":"Nicholas Sparks","tags":["alone","different","emptyness","fatherless","loneliness","missing-something","motherless","parentless"],"id":82277,"author_id":"Nicholas+Sparks"},{"text":"And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.","author":"D.R. Hedge","tags":["agony","creature","creature-of-moonlight","depression","drowning","empty","emptyness","fantasy","hurt","paranormal","paranormal-romance","sad","werewolf","werewolves"],"id":85587,"author_id":"D.R.+Hedge"},{"text":"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 that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.","author":"John Banville","tags":["death","emptyness","fear","human"],"id":85807,"author_id":"John+Banville"},{"text":"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 territory of change!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["book","book-readers","books","books","books","books","books-reading","books-reading-novels","change","changes","changes-in-life","changes-in-thought","changes-in-your-life","empty","empty-pages","emptyness","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","thoughts","thoughts","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":112045,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"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 straying away from the world, and never the return. As only the unreal is not ignoble and empty, existence must be admitted to be abominable. Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectness of life.","author":"Joris-Karl Huysmans","tags":["abject","abjectness","abominable","charms","chaste","chastity","death","distance","dream","empty","emptyness","eternal","existence","heaven","hope","hopelessness","ignoble","imagination","kiss","kisses","life","love","pale","pessimism","pessimist","possess","skeptic","skepticism","unreal","world"],"id":185850,"author_id":"Joris-Karl+Huysmans"},{"text":"One of the most lucrative privileges of an empty handed is the easiness to embrace wholeheartedly!","author":"Lukhman Pambra","tags":["contentment","embrace","emptyness","happiness-positive-outlook","hug","motivational-inspirational","positive","positive-thinking","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness"],"id":208202,"author_id":"Lukhman+Pambra"},{"text":"Home. The word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy, filling it with art, books, ornate lanterns, and a Persian carpet as soft as lynx fur. And of course there were her angel wings taking up one whole wall. But there was no help for the real emptiness; its close air was stirred by no breath but her own. When she was alone, the empty place within her, the missingness, as she thought of it, seemed to swell. Even being with Kaz had done something to keep it at bay, though not enough. Never enough.","author":"Laini Taylor","tags":["alone","emptyness","loneliness"],"id":214860,"author_id":"Laini+Taylor"},{"text":"If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.","author":"Green Day","tags":["emptyness","life","past"],"id":225809,"author_id":"Green+Day"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}