Quotes About Emptiness

#1. I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.

Kelly Moran

#2. Stars I understand. They shed light and give life. It is the emptiness between that haunts me.

Greg Bear

#3. He never had a positive feeling of love towards any of them, however. He just went with them and had sex with them. They filled each other's emptiness. Strange as it may seem, he never once felt a strong emotional attraction to any of the women who had a strong emotional attraction to him.

Haruki Murakami

#4. The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents
contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them.

Dag Hammarskjold

#5. The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

Wallace Stevens

#6. To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

Arthur Herzog

#7. you cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. The world-centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection-for God and from God. The love of the world and the love of the Father cannot coexist in the same heart

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#8. The inner being is not only the meditative quality within, the inner silence and emptiness, it is the door to the whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#9. But the most dangerous thing that camp had taught me was the awful lesson of country living: out there, in the open, in the quiet, all the emptiness pressed itself up against you, pawed at the very center of your heart, convinced you to make friends with loneliness.

Kaitlyn Greenidge

#10. Like the dandelion clocks, all blown and dispersed on the wind, my life has evaporated into the emptiness of a dream; for which I blame my betrayer, that dubious stranger wearing the mask of a once-loved face.

Anna Kavan

#11. Referring to Bogey's party: A lame excuse for all the idiots in our school to drink beer and rub up against each other in hopes of distracting themselves from the pathetic emptiness of their meaningless, consumer-driven lives.

David Levithan

#12. History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody's place in line.

Wislawa Szymborska

#13. The corridor smelled of water in the bottoms of purple vases and the piano was banging just beyond this emptiness.

John Hawkes

#14. Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

Sun Tzu

#15. 101. I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.

Maynard James Keenan

#16. And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#17. Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

Guy Debord

#18. Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might feel standing all alone on the surface of the moon.

Shusaku Endo

#19. It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure out of delving into their minds. There's rarely emptiness, and there is almost always deep intelligence.

Nnedi Okorafor

#20. The late Dr. [David] Bogue is reported to have one day said to some of his students, "Do you suppose that people have nothing to do but to listen to your emptiness by the hour?"-William Jay

George Redford

#21. She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

Thomm Quackenbush

#22. No emptiness in universe,
love permeates everything.

Toba Beta

#23. We were made for God, and until he is our greatest pleasure, all the other pleasures of this life will lead to emptiness.

Kyle Idleman

#24. Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment?

Dogen

#25. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, - Listen and do not hear - the tongue moves but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me - that I let Him have free hand.

Mother Teresa

#26. And I did everything I could to get over the nagging emptiness that took over every time I thought of Felicity Williams.

Sibylla Matilde

#27. Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#28. ...it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures

Cassandra Clare

#29. The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.

Meister Eckhart

#30. Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them.

Marilyn French

#31. The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#32. Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals - hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.

Rick Warren

#33. I can't stop thinking about her. Nothing specific, nothing I can visualize or recall. It's just pain and emptiness. Darkness. The light, the bright light, is gone.

Kim Holden

#34. Not even the human
imagination satisfies
the endless emptiness of the soul.

Allen Ginsberg

#35. There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#36. If life doesn't kill you, emptiness in Life will surely Kill You.

Unknown

#37. ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
in the morning...

Be here now,
not there,
where there is nothing
but stars
and emptiness...
...

Zorica Savron

#38. Don't be afraid of emptiness. Emptiness is divine. Let the divine fill up the space in a way that is truly right for you. Trying to fill it up too soon blocks your gifts.

Renae A. Sauter

#39. Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

Gautama Buddha

#40. It is the emptiness of the bowl that creates the bowl

Nick Flynn

#41. The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

John Piper

#42. Loneliness was tricky: a cup filled at one moment with freedom, and the next, with emptiness.

Laura Resau

#43. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us

Pierce Brown

#44. Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous.

Philip Larkin

#45. You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed yourself confronted with was an illusion: you had filled those moments with sensations all the more powerful in that nothing and no one had distracted you from them.

Edouard Leve

#46. Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

Nina Lugovskaya

#47. Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.

Frederick Lenz

#48. I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

Daul Kim

#49. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Virginia Woolf

#50. The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Robert Bly

#51. Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

Nick Denton

#52. A busy life is filled with tremendous emptiness.

Debasish Mridha

#53. When we look at the space at night, the deep emptiness and the frightening darkness in the universe motivate us to love our Earth even more!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#54. He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn't able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

Haruki Murakami

#55. - It is far more complicated to have the sex one sees being carried out nowadays, a mere mechanical act, causing tension during the act, and emptiness afterwards.

Paulo Coelho

#56. How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time ...

Claude Levi-Strauss

#57. Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought - not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.

Nelson Algren

#58. Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

Catherine Fisher

#59. With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

Peter Gabriel

#60. All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness ... I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.

Blake Charlton

#61. The only time I felt a bit better was when some guy would chatme up over a drink or, we were having sex - because then I felt I was worth for something. Only then could I feel happy because somebody wanted something I had. To fill the emptiness inside my soul I filled the hole between my legs.

Rika Yokomori

#62. She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

Paolo Giordano

#63. His blank face communicated an emptiness that could never be filled"
- Frank Balenger

David Morrell

#64. The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

#65. Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#66. My heartaches, sadness has consumed me, emptiness has filled me, hold me do not let me slip away.

Jonah Books

#67. I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.

Kermit Roosevelt III

#68. The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Saint Augustine

#69. The victorious ones have said
That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.
For whomever emptiness is a view,
That one has achieved nothing.

Nagarjuna

#70. [T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling it with anything that might put some too-useful dent in its open, airy emptiness.

Rachel Kushner

#71. I have overspread the world like a syrup and the emptiness of it it's terrifying, but there is no dislodging the seed; the seed has become a little knot of cold fire which roars like a sun in the vast hollow of the dead carcass.

Henry Miller

#72. Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

Jean Kilbourne

#73. All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there's no one who bores him more than himself.

David Levithan

#74. Sometimes you have to give the hurt a noise and let it out. If you don't, it fills you up with its emptiness.

Kiera Cass

#75. You slogged from the terrifying emptiness of the blank page to the two most beautiful words in a writer's vocabulary: The End.

Lisa Cron

#76. But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

Gangaji

#77. It was the final chapter of his breakdown, the moment when his glass drained of everything, and its emptiness awaited only for choices to come.

Sarah Winman

#78. Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

Frederick Lenz

#79. It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.

Robyn

#80. That hole she had at the base of her belly must appear so useless to her; a prick can always be cut off, but how do you forget the emptiness of a vagina?

Michel Houellebecq

#81. If he could bottle her strength
and vitality, he would. He would take everything that
was Tessa and lock it into a corner of his heart, to take
out when the emptiness got too overwhelming.

Taryn Elliott

#82. The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.

Jennifer Walkup

#83. She was going to burst, or fall apart. Something. She couldn't keep feeling like this. The emptiness inside her was too big; it would swallow her whole.

Lili Wilkinson

#84. Sometimes the emptiness in a room becomes palpable as if you could reach out and touch it real, hear its silence, feel its black nothingness. It invades your spirit, your soul like a stealthy misperception; a liquid lie that whispers and will not die, and makes you fight to stay alive.

Gloria Smith

#85. All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings ... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness

Ken Wilber

#86. Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

John O'Donohue

#87. What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?

Sorin Cerin

#88. The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Willa Cather

#89. Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into
emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.

Jean Baudrillard

#90. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

Judith Krantz

#91. Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate - and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.

Ron Rash

#92. Whenever she wasn't with me, there was an emptiness inside me, a feeling that something was missing, which I had never experienced before - as if, once she had entered my life, the world could no longer turn properly without her.

Joel Dicker

#93. If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.

Gayle Forman

#94. Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

Iain M. Banks

#95. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Frank Herbert

#96. Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Rumi

#97. The neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

Jean Baudrillard

#98. 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

#99. Buddhism asks big questions about birth and death, cause and effect, emptiness and form, delusion and enlightenment. I just hope you're not actually thinking about any of that stuff, because Buddhism is fundamentally about something that requires no thought.

Karen Maezen Miller

#100. The morning's recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

David Markson