Quotes About Emptiness

What's life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you're in heaven, bored rigid

A glory that costs everything and means nothing.

H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

There is only … eternal arising and ceasing – but … no thing that comes or goes.

W]ith the sense of self gone, ... actions naturally become uncalculated and free.

Try as we will, we'll not find any workable, definable thing in actual experience for this 'I' to refer to.

The conversation at dinner hadn't been successful either; it bore the marks of an old married couple who had very little left to say to each other.

Having few interests to sustain her, over the next few years she fell into a vacant, mental decline.

Life is miserable without you, its almost like having you here!

Pitch black again. Like someone extinguished an angel.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

You don't believe in love, do you?" - "I think it exists. I just don't think it will ever exist for me.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.