All HARUKI MURAKAMI Quotes about “Emptiness”

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasnâ€™t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”
“As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.”
“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
“Beyond the edge of the world thereâ€™s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

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