Sarah Dessen Quotes

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

Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me that I am a mistake.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

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

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

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

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Oh, what a void there is in things.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

I would rather be dead than empty

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

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

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

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.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.