Veronica Roth Quotes

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

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

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

Secularism produces a bored soul

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.