Quotes About Emptiness

To ignite the wisdom fires of bliss and emptiness And burn off the wood of seeming duality; To cultivate the illusory body yoga locked in union With the vision Of Clear light and voidness

All the things that appear to the mind Are merely paintings of names and thoughts; Not even a speck of dust exists From the side of the objects themselves. Meditate again and again on this vision Of emptiness, the final nature of being.

Investigate, for example, a tree. Just as tree is a mere mental label that is Known as neither one with nor separate from its parts, Like it's leaves and branches, similarly all things are Mere imputation of names and mental labels Nagarjuna and his disciples taught in this way.

I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

I thought of Phuong just because of her complete absence. So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.

Even Vacancy was crowded with her.

I had felt myself not merely incapable of love – many are incapable of that, but even of guilt. There were no heights and no abysses in my world – I saw myself on a great plain, walking and walking on the interminable flats.

ojos de viejo al que se le han muerto los sentimientos».

He was no longer an orphan, but finding out who his real father was made him feel as if he were standing naked in an icy wind, at night, with no shelter - a wind that would never stop blowing until the day he died

A feeble fire is worse than an empty grate.

Look at it, Dane. Look at the city and the world in its proud array, like a cask of jewels laid open for you. It'll offer you everything you ever wanted but it's just pictures on billboards; dream cars, dream women, dream houses. Time to wake up now and say goodbye. Remember, Dane: there's other worlds out there. It's only empty air here. Jump out of the world, jump to the place I showed you and you'll not fall. Are you ready? Are you ready to jump right off the edge of everything?

Jane: Cliff...Oh! The metal's warm, like skin. Look at me, Cliff. Listen. Love means nothing at all. Life means nothing at all. Cliff: What?

Stars I understand. They shed light and give life. It is the emptiness between that haunts me.

That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.

Hope can live in a vacuum.

I should have gotten a dog.

I was the asteroid that hovered just outside his orbit.

Very carefully he thought about nothing.

But I feel myself marooned on the island of my self.

It was just that all the hope had been so empty, so meaningless. And if you prove to a man how vain his hope is, how vain his hoping was, you kill the bright, believing part of him that wants to be loved.