emptiness, hollowness or a sense of being ‘dead inside’: a fairly common experience in depression or trauma.

But the sense of emptiness, or non-resonance, may arise in a quite different way. It can come in the feeling that the quotidian is emptied of deeper resonance, is dry, flat; the things which surround us are dead, ugly, empty; and the way we organize them, shape them, arrange them, in order to live has no meaning, beauty, depth, sense.

THE EMPTINESS OF EXISTENCE.