„people diminish me;the longer I sit and listen to themthe more empty I feel but I don’t getthe idea that they feel empty, I feelthat they enjoy the sound from theirmouths.“

— Charles Bukowski

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„When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic — here on Sixth Avenue, for instance — I don't have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound... I don't need sound to talk to me.“
— John Cage
„People empty me. I have to get away to refill.“
— Charles Bukowski
„I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.“
— Sylvia Plath
„I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.“
— Bram Stoker