Top 100 The Emptiness Quotes
#1. 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
#2. When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. From the ground. They waded waist-deep in the grass, in a compact body, bearing an improvised stretcher in their midst. Instantly, in the emptiness of the landscape, a cry arose whose shrillness pierced the still air like a sharp arrow
Joseph Conrad
#4. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me.
Tim Krabbe
#5. I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.
J.A. Redmerski
#6. The most exuberant expression of the body is in dance. Dance theater is wonderful. The dance becomes fluent sculpture. The body shapes the emptiness poignantly and majestically. The
John O'Donohue
#7. How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.
Galen Beckett
#8. I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland. Maybe this winter I can be persuaded otherwise.
Veronica Roth
#9. Abby being in my room made it feel like home, and the emptiness no longer seemed right.
Jamie McGuire
#10. Even though white is often associated with things, that are pleasant and pure, there is a peculiar emptiness about the color white. It is the emptiness of the white that is more disturbing, than even the bloodiness of red.
Herman Melville
#11. More and more believers are tasting the same despair the world lives in because they have chosen to "walk ... as other Gentiles walk, in the [emptiness] of their mind."8
Jim Berg
#12. The last time I kissed someone my heart felt this loneliness I didn't know if I'd ever recover if it was already too late. I just lay in my room and wrestled with the emptiness an emotion so big it had the full force of fate.
Anonymous
#13. Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
Ronald Reagan
#14. Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#16. There was the emptiness of space I was afraid to fall into, but the only real fear I'd ever actually had was to dive into the emptiness inside of myself.
Orson De Witt
#17. Sometimes the truth isn't obvious; sometimes it exists in the silence, in the emptiness between the spaces, but we're too afraid to hear it.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#18. We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#19. Nothing teaches us so much the preciousness of the Creator, as when we learn the emptiness of all besides.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.
Bruce Springsteen
#21. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Woody Allen
#22. He reminded himself again that he took no true pleasure in her pain. He was simply trying to spread the message of the emptiness that had consumed him and make people realize how easily dreams shattered.
Ira Gansler
#23. Ignore the pithiness, look for the goodness.
Fill the emptiness with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Parts of my soul had always been missing, but I felt whole for the first time. The emptiness inside of me was gone and had been replaced by a warm glow that made my entire world look brighter and more bearable. I had to have more.
Elizabeth Garrison
#25. 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
#26. You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.
Yasmin Mogahed
#27. The future exists only in our imagination
it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express
that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness
listening in the silence
until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.
Dawna Markova
#28. So Aquila took his father's service upon him. It wasn't as good as love; it wasn't as good as hate; but it was something to put into the emptiness within him; better than nothing at all.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#29. Stars I understand. They shed light and give life. It is the emptiness between that haunts me.
Greg Bear
#30. 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
#31. 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
#33. Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
Guy Debord
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#37. ...it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures
Cassandra Clare
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. It is the emptiness of the bowl that creates the bowl
Nick Flynn
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul
Catherine Fisher
#46. 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
#47. The morning's recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
David Markson
#48. Jeremy, when I first met you, you filled a void in my life - a physical need - in a fun and exciting way. But the more I spend time with you, especially like last night, where I can talk to you and get to know you, the more I realize you fill up the emptiness in my heart too.
E.M. Lynley
#49. Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
David Foster Wallace
#50. The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
Willa Cather
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only thing that can.
A.G. Howard
#55. No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
Scott Spencer
#56. Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality"
and of a "spiritual" nurture
that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.
Jean Grasso Fitzpatrick
#57. I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere
W.S. Merwin
#58. His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky.
J.K. Rowling
#59. He chanced a look at her and saw the flare of something in her eyes. A salve to the emptiness that sometimes threatened to suffocate him.
Melina Marchetta
#60. Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.
Margaret Atwood
#62. Unfortunately time is the master of us all; it takes what it will, and often there are no words to ease the emptiness of what is gone.
Bette Lee Crosby
#63. When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
Gautama Buddha
#65. People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them
Leo Tolstoy
#66. Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
Van Morrison
#67. The moment Aires' car rumbled beneath me, I'd known that I needed Noah in my life. Aires' death had left a gaping hole in my heart. I thought all I needed was that car to run. Wrong. A car would never fill the emptiness, but love could.
Katie McGarry
#68. You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.
Sarah McLachlan
#69. Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
Edgar Allan Poe
#70. Nothing outside of a living relationship with Christ can ever fill the emptiness inside.
Craig Groeschel
#71. You ever feel the emptiness? You ever feel an emptiness so bad, you've got to fill it or you'll die, but you don't know where the emptiness is or what in the name of God you're supposed to fill it WITH?
Dean Koontz
#72. I pray to the emptiness that is the page," Tenn said, "and I pray to the emptiness that is my mind, and I ask that I be filled.
James Grissom
#73. This intensification of inner life helped the prisoner find a refuge from the emptiness, desolation and spiritual poverty of his existence, by letting him escape into the past.
Viktor E. Frankl
#74. They would fade away-and I would be left alone to face the people at school,and the reporters,and Adriane,and all the places where Max had taken my hand or breathed in my ear or told me he loved me,and the emptiness that used to be Chris.
Robin Wasserman
#75. Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#76. I'm chasing a decade old ghost. Searching beneath the rafters of a cobweb-filled haven lined with old memories which my brain cannot accept are dead. The light of nostalgia is burning bright inside my heart. Ignoring the emptiness around me, and hoping for a resurrection of love.
LeAnne Mechelle
#77. You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
Carl Sagan
#78. The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.
El Lissitzky
#79. Sam's Place had never felt so empty. He suspected the emptiness was not in the old Quonset hut; it was in him. There was nothing in him now, nothing but the great emptiness of death, which he seemed to carry with him like a virus.
William Kent Krueger
#80. I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything ... All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#81. Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
Jean Kilbourne
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. I was petrified of what he made me feel. After having no one for so long, the possibility of filling the emptiness was almost unimaginable.
Helena Hunting
#86. The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt,was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.
Dan Davin
#87. I grab a snap pea and bite off the end of it, and then I pick up my glass of milk. I'm overwhelmed by the emptiness in my middle that food won't fill.
Janet Gurtler
#88. Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.
Cassandra Clare
#89. The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs.
Witold Gombrowicz
#90. I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.
Bobby Vinton
#91. I'm looking for a path out of the emptiness but all I see is the great wide earth in various formations.
David Wojnarowicz
#92. We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.
Dan Fogelberg
#93. The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.
James Altucher
#94. The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we're bound.
David Mutti Clark
#95. I can't feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers
"Please."
He says "Please don't shoot me for this."
And he kisses me.
Tahereh Mafi
#96. Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
Samuel Johnson
#97. The emptiness of one's days
can be seen as utterly hopeless
or as ripe with potential.
Edward Fahey
#98. Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy
Debasish Mridha
#99. The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.
Frederick Lenz
#100. Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.
A.G. Howard
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