Quotes About Emptiness

Near me nothing but distances.

Donde hemos puesto algo, siempre creemos que hay algo, aunque no haya nada.

Ah, ma lei mi ha fatto bere troppo, Monsieur, però in quanto a bicchieri è una buona compagnia. Sa, a volte, quando si è bevuto un po', la realtà si semplifica, si saltano i vuoti fra le cose, tutto sembra combaciare e uno dice: ci sono. Come nei sogni. Ma a lei perché interessano le storie altrui? Anche lei deve essere incapace a riempire i vuoti fra le cose. Non le sono sufficienti i suoi propri sogni?

An utterly lonely lady lives a lavish lifestyle.

The fact is that the surplus money empties a person's mind and fills junk in his/her heart

The proportion to which a person's heart is devoid of compassion tends to find own mind empty to get the happiness in personal life a plenty.

The quantity by which a person's heart is empty of quality empathetic feeling has his/her mind dirty.

There are people who have amassed huge wealth and money by all means but could not find any happiness out of it, so to console themselves they keep claiming or pretending to be happy to the people.

Anhedonia', which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.

There with vast wings across the canceled skies, There in the sudden blackness the black pall Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.

He just couldn't be with people. There were a few kids he sometimes spoke with at school—at lunch, or walking home—but months ago even they had stopped trying to talk to him. Silas had no real answers for their predictable questions.

El desierto no ofrece siquiera la ilusión de que uno podrá ser alguna vez otra cosa que un intruso.

In the wider world, we keep hectically busy and fill every free moment of our day with some form of diversion—work, computers, television, movies, radio, magazines, newspapers, sports, alcohol, drugs, parties. Perhaps we distract ourselves because looking at our lives confronts us with our lack of meaning, our unhappiness, and our loneliness—and with the difficulty, the fragility, and the unbelievable brevity of life.

She stared ahead with eyes where dreams no longer swam, where thoughts no longer had any life. It was that hazy stare of old people behind which was the mysterious nothingness which was drawing nearer, the absolute end, the annihilation of everything and everybody, the awful end in helplessness, grief, grief, and the sleep of everything there is.

Kijk,' zegt hij, 'kijk hoe mooi het hier is. Nergens een mens te bespeuren. Alleen maar zand. Dat is mooi. Een wereld zonder mensen, dat is schoonheid. Duisternis is de mens, niets dan dat, het epicentrum van duisternis, en het enige licht dat van hem komt, is het licht van het beest.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn.

When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.

I always want to have children running around in the garden and so I don't know what I am going to do with myself once they're all grown up.

If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Les adultes-enfants m'ennuient, ce sont des cannibales. Ils ne sont propres qu'à se nourrir de la vitalité des autres. Ils ne se perçoivent pas. Et parce qu'ils ne se perçoivent pas, ils ne peuvent pas vivre, et ne sont rien d'autre qu'avides, du regard ou du sang de quelques autres.

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God's voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.