Quotes About Emptiness

We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

How did her life live itself without her.

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn.

sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say and all i can not ask

The minutes of white-collar workers' lives were tapped out by typewriters and adding machines. They had the cheerfulness of robots, having lost the capacity to feel anything except boredom.