Veronica Roth Quotes

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

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

Life is an empty dream.

Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing.

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

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

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

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

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.