"Something is missing:"

"Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. This, I think, is the coarse grit at the bottom of the ocean, the floor beneath appetite's sea: simple human sorrow." a quote from APPETITES WHY WOMEN WANT, written by Caroline Knapp

The above quote made so much sense to me the first time I read it. Underneath all that we do to cover the sorrow it is still there like the grit at the bottom the ocean.