Quotes About Emptiness

The flatness was stultifying. She wouldn't say this aloud because in light of other worries it seemed self-indulgent, but Willa missed mountains. Missed them hard, with the psychic equivalent of a toothache.

I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no longer a place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.

I don't know, Magda says, Seems like that's just how it is with you and me. We're like islands on the moon.

a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb. I know people.

The truth is, it didn't matter what or how hard we yelled. Nothing was coming back to us.

you've not seen the far end of lonely.

It's hard to explain how you can miss a place and want it with all your heart, and be utterly sure it will obliterate you the instant you touch down.

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

E' uno strano dolore. Morire di nostalgia per qualcosa che non vivrai mai.

The owner of a coffee shop sat diminished in the back of his deserted establishment, waiting for patronage that had long since vanished.

The room was large, and largely empty. The pace would pick up later in the evening. For now, the action comprised just a few lonely souls. They seemed lost in the expanse of the room, their play joyless, desultory, as though they'd been looking for a livelier party and found themselves stuck with this one instead.

Hell is empty And all the devils are here. —William Shakespeare, The Tempest

There wasn't any

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?

But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind.

the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.

The falling of the leaves is the truth. The sweeping is the truth. The wind's blowing them away is the truth. The people's anger also is the truth. If your mind is moving, you can't understand the truth. You must first understand that form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Next, no form, no emptiness. Then you will understand that form is form, emptiness is emptiness. Then all these actions are the truth. And then you will find your true home.

May 22, 1975 No wall, no plant, no air, no sky Clinging to form Clinging to emptiness Stops the love We create this earth To teach us the love We are here on this earth To practice the love. Hae Mi

Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain. Two statements may be said concerning this individual. One is that he suffers

Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain.

many so-called mental and emotional illnesses are really symptoms of an underlying sense of meaninglessness or emptiness.

mental and emotional illnesses are really symptoms of an underlying sense of meaninglessness or emptiness. Logotherapy eliminates that emptiness by helping the individual to detect his unique meaning, his mission in life. Once you have that sense of mission, you have the essence of your own proactivity.

this library is another desert. A wasteland of words instead of sand.

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.