Emptiness Quotes

Minus: Papa, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality burst open. Do you understand...

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of...

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...

But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almo...

I am not my opinion of myself, I am not anything I can describe to me. I am only a part of a large s...

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of pl...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in...

Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening...

[in the true mad north] of introspection,where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in ...

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the mea...

You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then s...

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things ...

Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They ...

Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the so...

Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the s...

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. ...

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, bu...

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ou...

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather t...

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remai...

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...

Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.

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

Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one ...

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence...

If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and...

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but...

We lie under the sheetafter making love, speakingof lonelinessrelieved in a bookrelived in a bookso ...

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is th...

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...

But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical re...

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how m...

But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted toget...

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I c...

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our da...

Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow...

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir...

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without...

This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this...

Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titl...

Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with ...

Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspic...

This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in ...

I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the exis...

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that ...

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where pas...

No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save m...

No stone was laid upon· another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thi...