Edwidge Danticat Quotes

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

There is nothing else to do in my life... I have no family, relationships - this is the only thing that I do.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

What remains is solitude.

I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.