Quotes About Emptiness

Kendini afallam??, yapayaln?z ve sevgisiz hissediyordu.

How far did we just travel? he said. About ... said Slartibartfast, about two thirds of the way across the Galactic disc, I would say, roughly. Yes, roughly two thirds, I think. It's a strange thing, said Arthur quietly, that the further and faster one travels across the Universe, the more one's position in it seems to be largely immaterial, and one is filled with a profound, or rather emptied of a ... Yes, very strange, said Ford.

But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire, had been sucked from his soul, and now he was just an animal living on instinct.

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

Whatever the image of yourself, it's a mask and it's hiding emptiness.

Silence reveals itself only to itself. Only when we enter as nothing and stay as nothing, will silence open its secret

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are

ADYA I will try to explain what happened experientially. At the moment of awakening, it was as though I was completely outside who I thought I was. There was a vast, vast, vast emptiness. In that vast emptiness, in that infinite emptiness, there was the smallest, smallest, smallest point of light you could imagine. And

Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.

He's not dead. But I have a feeling he's bored. That's worse.

Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.' But the reader's plate is full

You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren't wanted.

What you've been saying. It's just words. It doesn't mean anything.

Is he then an unhappy man?" Poirot said : "So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy." The nun said softly: "Ah, a rich man...

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

At the end of the small hours: life flat on its face, miscarried dreams and nowhere to put them, the river of life listless in its hopeless bed, not rising or falling, unsure of its flow, lamentably empty, the heavy impartial shadow of boredom creeping over the quality of all things, the air stagnant, unbroken by the brightness of a single bird.

The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

In other words, take "myself," subtract "movies" and the result is "zero.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

I have nothing I ever wanted, after I had everything.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.