Quotes About Emptiness

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself... Good evening!

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

The light has gone out of my life.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone

It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

We can also lose our way if we misunderstand selflessness or emptiness. When we confuse relative reality with ultimate reality, or misinterpret ultimate reality as something that destroys the conventional world, then we fall into the trap of the nihilists who see no meaning or purpose in life. Then our view of emptiness is inspired by sadness and depression, and it becomes just another tool to shut everything down. Instead of looking at the world with joy, we see it as hopeless.

You'll never find just emptiness or just compassion alone. On this elemental level, they are never divorced. It's a somewhat romantic image—this universe of space and energy as passionate, loving, and selfless all at once.

However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must disembark once you have arrived. At the point of total realization, you must abandon Buddhism. The spiritual path is a temporary solution, a placebo to be used until emptiness is understood.

It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.

Emptiness is consciousness itself.

My first thought when jumping out of bed in the middle of the night was going to throw myself into the sea from the cliff top.