Quotes About Emptiness

If possessions are viewed as part of self, it follows that an unintentional loss of possessions should be regarded as a loss or lessening of self.

To someone who has not had a parent stolen from them, I can only attempt to explain how it feels. It's like having part of yourself hacked off without warning. Afterwards, they become like a phantom limb: you're sure they're still present because you can feel them, you communicate with them, but you just can't see them.

There are certain people who if they are absent life becomes hard to bear.

and what is not there is always more than there.

Incarnation is an empty glass.

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born.

If someone asks about the mind of this monk, say it is no more than a passage of wind in the vast sky.

They carved your name into the stone and then they put it in the ground, I run my fingers through the grooves When no one's around

Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife, an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you

It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.

Engulfed by a sudden emptiness, she was reminded of a train which after discharging passengers at various stations, has finally come to rest, empty at a railway shed.

She could crowd a thousand thoughts into her head, but it was, at that moment like a strainer -- the more she tried to fill up every little corner, the more emptiness there was.

When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.

Çocuklu?umdan beri belki ilk defa olarak; hayat?m?n sebepsizli?ini ve bo?lu?unu dü?ünerek içim ezilmeden , "Bugün de geçti i?te…Ve bütün günlerim hep böyle geçecek sonra ne olacak sanki!" demeden uykuya dald?m.

Bana hareket etmek, görmek, duymak, hissetmek, dü?ünmek, hülasa ya?amak kabiliyetlerini veren bir ?ey içimden çekilip al?nm?? gibi, posa haline geldi?imi fark ettim.

?nsan oturdu?u odan?n duvarlar?ndan biri yok oluvermi? gibi bir noksanl?k, bir ç?plakl?k duyuyor, bir gün evveline kadar kolumuz, baca??m?z gibi pek tabii surette mevcut olan bir ?eyin birdenbire hiç olmas?na inanmak istemiyordu.

Varl??? büyük bo?luklar? dolduracak mahiyette de?ildi; fakat yoklu?u müthi?ti...

Varl??? büyük bo?luklar? dolduracak mahiyette bir ?ey de?ildi; fakat yoklu?u müthi?ti.

Zaman zaman beni saran hüzünlerin, hayat b?kk?nl???n?n bir ruhi hastal?k alameti olmas?ndan korkard?m. Bir kitab? okurken geçen iki saatin ömrümün birçok senelerinden daha dolu, ehemmiyetli oldu?unu fark edince insan hayat?n?n ürkütücü hiçli?ini dü?ünür ve yeis içinde kal?rd?m.

Uop?e nisu bili loši ljudi. Samo su bili isprazna stvorenja. Sve neprimjereno što bi uradili dolazilo je odatle. Pred zijevaju?om prazninom svoje vlastite unutrašnjosti mogu su osvijestiti svoju li?nost i zadovoljiti se samo dok druge ljude tretiraju kao nevažne, vrije?aju ih i smiju im se.

Hiç de fena insanlar de?illerdi. Yaln?z bo?, bombo? mahluklard?. Yapt?klar? münasebetsizlikler hep buradan geliyordu.

Per la prima volta fin dall'infanzia andai a dormire senza affliggermi per la mia esistenza vuota e insignificante, e mi addormentai senza disperarmi per la giornata appena trascorsa, che era solo una ripetizione della precedente e non sarebbe stata diversa nemmeno il giorno dopo.

TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning

The yogic culture personifies a certain concept, infuses drama into it, and turns it into stories. The story mode enables it to speak of dimensions that are beyond the realm of logic. And so it personifies infinite emptiness. It turns Shi-va—"that which is not"—into Shiva, the divine being who is the source of all creation. And so the story begins.