Feeling empty can be an overwhelming experience. It wraps around you like a thick fog, making it hard to see the light. In those dark moments, words can offer comfort. Quotes have a magical way of expressing what we can’t put into words ourselves.
These quotes on feeling empty might help you find a shimmer of hope. They serve as a gentle reminder that you are not alone. Sometimes, knowing others have felt the same can bring a small sense of peace.
Inspiring Feeling Empty Quotes
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.” – Maxwell Maltz
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.” – Myles Munroe
“The world is very beautiful, but human beings are like tumbleweeds, scattered across the landscape and feeling so empty.” – Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes the feeling of emptiness is a reminder that we have yet to fill our lives with what really matters.” – Unknown
“To feel emptiness is to be human, but to fill it with purpose is to transcend.” – Unknown
“The emptiness of a moment brings clarity that fullness can never achieve.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.” – D.T. Suzuki
“What makes night within us may leave stars.” – Victor Hugo
“Feeling empty often reveals a longing for connections that go deeper than the surface.” – Brené Brown
“There’s a difference between being alone and feeling empty.” – M. L. Rhodes
“The void inside can either consume us or become the canvas where we paint our dreams.” – Unknown
“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.” – Mary Wortley Montagu
“It is the space between the bars that holds the tiger.” – Zen Proverb
“I have a heart, but I also have a brain. And sometimes they don’t speak to each other.” – Unknown
“To feel empty doesn’t mean you’re broken; it just means you’ve recognized the need for more.” – Unknown
“There is a certain feeling of time passing, which is felt more keenly when one is empty.” – Haruki Murakami
“We are always searching for something to fill the emptiness within us.” – Leo Tolstoy
“If emptiness is the symptom, then purpose is the cure.” – Unknown
“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can’t supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.” – C. S. Lewis
“We are all born with a void in our hearts, it is the journey of life to fill it.” – Unknown
“In trying to fill the emptiness, we may end up merely covering it.” – Stephen R. Covey
“An empty heart is like a vacuum, it attracts everything around, but what it really craves is a meaningful connection.” – Unknown
“Emptiness is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything yet to come.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“There is an inner hunger, one that cannot be satisfied with food or water, but with meaning and love.” – Dalai Lama
“Feeling empty is a sign that we are meant for more; it’s the universe’s way of urging us to find our true path.” – Unknown
“You can only be emptied so much before you need to be filled again.” – Jodi Picoult
Understanding Emptiness through Quotes
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose.” – Myles Munroe
“We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.” – Jenova Chen
“The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.” – Norman Cousins
“The hollowness that rests upon the shoulders is heavier than any burden.” – Unknown
“It is hard to answer the question ‘what’s wrong?’ when nothing is right.” – Unknown
“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.” – Sylvia Plath
“The feeling of emptiness is like a ghost; sometimes it quietly haunts you, other times it terrifies.” – Unknown
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.” – Warsan Shire
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I was already strong, and they made me prove it.” – Emery Lord
“When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.” – Anaïs Nin
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.” – Anaïs Nin
“And then all turned to silver glass, a light on the water, all souls pass.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The emotional prisons we build for ourselves are more confining than any visible walls.” – Unknown
“The emptiness of our busy lives is often an escape from the inward life we avoid.” – Unknown
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.” – Angie Thomas
“Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.” – Viktor Frankl
“True emptiness is not empty, but full of everything.” – Dogen
Push through Emptiness with Quotes
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” – Jacques Lacan
“I felt a void in me, a place where there was nothing and into that nothingness, I fell.” – Haruki Murakami
“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – A.A. Milne
“Sometimes the greatest adventure is simply a conversation.” – Amadeus Wolfe (Original)
“We live as we dream – alone.” – Joseph Conrad
“In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“I have stood here before inside the pouring rain, with the world turning circles running ’round my brain.” – The Police
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” – Sylvia Plath
“Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” – Pablo Picasso
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” – Blaise Pascal
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin
“There is an emptiness inside of me – a void that no meal can fill.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.” – David J. Wolpe
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.” – Woody Allen
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.” – Lao Tzu
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” – Henry David Thoreau
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
Famous Quotes on Feeling Empty
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” – Lois Lowry
“I felt a strange emptiness inside me. I still don’t know what caused it. Maybe it was the feeling of having everything and nothing at the same time.” – Anonymous
“The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.” – Norman Cousins
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.” – C.S. Lewis
“Emptiness is not a great loss. It creates a great opportunity to fill yourself again and again with great love.” – Debasish Mridha
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.” – Michel de Montaigne
“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer
“Sometimes you have to be empty in order to be filled.” – Anonymous
“The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.” – E.M. Forster
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.” – Robert James Waller
“The tragedy of life is not death but what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins
“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star.” – Emery Allen
“We become aware of the void as we fill it.” – Antonio Porchia
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow.” – George Eliot
“You can only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha
“Sometimes I feel like something is missing. Maybe it’s you.” – Anonymous
“At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.” – Brendan Francis
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
“There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn’t jump puddles for you.” – Anonymous
“In a real sense, all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“You’re the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we’d know each other a long time.” – Brian Andreas
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” – Jane Austen
“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” – Albert Schweitzer
“I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to really hug myself and say, ‘I love you.'” – Louise Hay
Heart Touching Emptiness Quotes
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Sometimes, you have to stand alone, just to make sure you still can.” – Anonymous
“Emptiness is like air; it occupies space, but we can never grasp it.” – Original
“The worst emptiness is loneliness, and the worst loneliness is to feel like a deserted soul.” – Anonymous
“I felt a void beneath my heart, a silence so intense it echoed through my bones.” – Original
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell
“It’s strange how the emptiness can be so heavy.” – Original
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.” – Richard Wilbur
“When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.” – Sufi Proverb
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.” – Woody Allen
“There is an emptiness inside of me – a void that cannot be filled by things.” – Anonymous
“Sometimes it feels better to sit in the dark than to be surrounded by a false light.” – Original
“A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow arm is filled with material.” – Chinese Proverb
“Feeling uncertain and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.” – Anonymous
“That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty.” – Anonymous
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” – Mary Oliver
“It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“You can’t fill an empty heart with things; only love can do that.” – Original
“Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But you never forget them. And sometimes, it’s those memories that give us the strength to go on.” – Anonymous
“Stars are born from the chaos of the void, so why not our hopes?” – Original
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“I am a child of the void, but I will not let it consume me.” – Original
“Nobody can fill the place that is yours to fill. And if you occupy no place, then you will feel empty.” – Original
“We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.” – Jenova Chen
“Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to share.” – Anonymous
“The void is the gross emptiness that is also full of possibility.” – Original
Reflective Quotes on Emptiness
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose.” – Myles Munroe
“Emptiness is the starting point. In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.” – Bruce Lee
“What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love, and when our hearts are empty, our minds lose their bearings.” – Unknown
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” – C.S. Lewis
“Sometimes the emptiest people are the loveliest to be around. They’re always trying to be full of life.” – Unknown
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
“The feeling of being empty is like the ocean with no water, sky with no stars, and life with no purpose.” – Anonymous
“Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.” – Paulo Coelho
“An empty heart is a void that can only be filled with loving oneself first and foremost.” – A. Traveler
“There are days when nothing fits. Everything is too tight, or too loose, or just wrong. The emptiness echoes around your hollow chambers, mocking your every move.” – N.R. Hart
“We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.” – Jenova Chen
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Being empty doesn’t mean you have nothing to give. Sometimes, your presence alone can be the greatest gift.” – S.H. Dawson
“Things are empty when they are full of themselves.” – Dejan Stojanovic
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” – John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America
“We spread our darkness over others because we don’t know how to manage what feels empty within us.” – J. Iron Word
“And when your heart is empty, filling it with dreams can make it shine again.” – Jasmine Greene
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” – Roman Payne
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
“Sometimes the emptiest moments can offer the fullest reflections.” – M. Lucid
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha
“A full schedule, but an empty heart. Plenty of contacts, but no real connection.” – S.V. Clark
“Embrace the void within you, for it is the place where your true self waits to emerge.” – T. Calderone
“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In the quiet, empty moments, we can hear the whispers of our true selves.” – L. Moore
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.” – Tennessee Williams
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.” – Maxwell Maltz
“The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.” – Norman Cousins
“You wake up with a feeling of emptiness and, by the time you go to bed, it is still there.” – Haruki Murakami
“The only thing more unendurable than loneliness is the fear of it.” – George Eliot
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none.” – Arthur Golden
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“The empty spaces of your life that you are trying to fill with people, possessions, and experiences may just be the very places that you instead need to fill with more of you.” – Shannon L. Alder
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.” – D.T. Suzuki
“The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.” – Unknown
“we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.” – Woody Allen
“The void created by the failure to communicate is filled with agony.” – Haruki Murakami
“To experience what isn’t, love what is.” – Ava Poe
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
“A deep feeling of sadness is often an indicator that we are not pursuing our life’s purpose.” – Shannon L. Alder
“The human condition: lost in thought.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Feeling empty doesn’t mean you’re empty; it means you’re full of what’s supposed to be there.” – Shannon L. Alder
“We think we know what we’re dealing with, but often feeling empty is the signal that we’ve been too full of the wrong things.” – Ava Poe
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“To be whole, first be empty.” – Lao Tzu
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” – Maya Angelou
“And we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Wrap It Up
Feeling empty is a universal experience. The quotes we’ve shared remind us that it’s okay to feel this way sometimes. These words offer comfort, understanding, and hope. They show that many people have felt this way and found ways to cope. Reflecting on such quotes can bring a sense of connection and peace.
Next time you feel a void, remember these quotes. Let them remind you that it’s normal to have such feelings. Embrace these moments as part of life. Finding the right words can feel like a light in the darkness, guiding you through to better times.
