"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

Emptiness, Life, Movement, Feeling

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"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Emptiness, Freedom, Life, Existence

"I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Emptiness, Mind, Soul, Existence

"Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Emptiness, Hunger, Soul, Life

"A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Emptiness, Death, Loss, Memory

". . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . ."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Emptiness, Comfort, Heart, Hope, Emotion

"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Emptiness, Life, Movement, Feeling

"There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Emptiness, Obvious, Conviction, Truth

"No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Emptiness, Truth, Struggle, Reality

"As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Emptiness, Freedom, Nothing, Truth

"Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Emptiness, Darkness, Silence, Identity

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"Widow. The word consumes itself."

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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

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"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

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"I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in."

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"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both."

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"All the gods know is destinations."

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"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."

"I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something."

"Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty."

"A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying."

". . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . ."

"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

"There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise."

"No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me."

"As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs."

"Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."

Explore more quotes by Sylvia Plath

"Widow. The word consumes itself."

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

"Is there no way out of the mind?"

"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."

"I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in."

"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both."

"All the gods know is destinations."