Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes About Emptiness

Quotes about: Emptiness

• Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Men, Trying, Void

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2011

• I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Thinking, Reaching Up, Wind

• People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.
  None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sex, Pain, Writing

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