Quotes About Emptiness Reality

#1. The reconciliation of nothing and reality and the suspension of time and space by high velocities replace the exoticism of journeys with a vast expanse of emptiness.

Paul Virilio

#2. Universal emptiness is mere concept.
The fact is, there was never emptiness.

Toba Beta

#3. Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas Pynchon

#4. All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

Shunryu Suzuki

#5. I watched him fall in love with you in that very instant."
"Shut up." I laughed. "You can't fall in love in one glance."
"Wanna bet?

Amanda Carlson

#6. She can't say no if she's unconscious.

Zach Braff

#7. Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

Dalai Lama

#8. It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.

Jon Huertas

#9. Too much TV hurts movies.

Elvis Presley

#10. It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

Jay Michaelson

#11. A world without music is only filled with sounds in the air

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

William Faulkner

#13. Blame it on the lies that killed us.
Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Bruce Springsteen

#14. What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

John McEnroe

#15. I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

Jane Devin

#16. I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

Kathy Acker

#17. Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

Anthony Marais

#18. Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself.

Ilchi Lee

#19. Perception through emptiness is existential, as the transience of all phenomena affirms the indivisibility of existence itself, before, within and behind all manifestation.

Georgi Y. Johnson

#20. Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#21. To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth. Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

Sengcan

#22. Peace above all, even above love.

Laure Lacornette

#23. a flash of silver just below the surface.

Paul Kemprecos

#24. How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

Wallace Stevens

#25. You must never draw, he'd said, until you know hoe many are against you, or you've satisfied yourself that you can never know, or you've decided it's your day to die.

Stephen King

#26. His tone is mild, but there is, and always has been, something a little deeper and more resonant about his voice. It has a slightly different timbre than more voices. Its the kind of thing you forget until you hear it again and remember. Oh yes, His voice has music.

Ally Condie

#27. By saying that phenomena are empty of intrinsic existence, we are declaring not their nonexistence but their interdependence, their absence of concrete reality. And the emptiness of phenomena, far from being a mental construct or a concept, corresponds to the reality itself of the phenomenal world.

Dalai Lama XIV

#28. Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

Daniel H. Wilson

#29. The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis
only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

Dag Hammarskjold