Quotes About Emptiness

I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Hell, madame, is to love no longer.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

I may not be old but I'm too old to have this much nothing

Though thirty spokes may form the wheel, it is the hole within the hub which gives the wheel utility. It is not the clay the potter throws, which gives the pot its usefulness, but the space within the shape, from which the pot is made. Without a door, the room cannot be entered, and without its windows it is dark Such is the utility of non-existence.212

Though thirty spokes may form the wheel, it is the hole within the hub which gives the wheel utility. It is not the clay the potter throws, which gives the pot its usefulness, but the space within the shape, from which the pot is made. Without a door, the room cannot be entered, and without its windows it is dark Such is the utility of non-existence.212 A

What we perceive, when things fall apart, is no longer the stage and settings of habitable order. It's the eternal watery tohu va bohu, formless emptiness, and the tehom, the abyss, to speak biblically—the chaos forever lurking beneath our thin surfaces of security.

Acaso no es mejor un poco de amor que un mucho de nada?

They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment Nacib did not love her. He did not hate her either. He beat her mechanically, as if to relax his nerves from the tension of suffering. He was empty like a vase without a flower. He felt a pain in his heart as if someone were slowly pushing a dagger into it. He felt neither hate nor love. Just pain" (366).

Only that which is gone belongs to us.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

La palabra "antes" se vacía de contenido a medida que nos acercamos al origen de los tiempos.

It is the solstice. A diamond of energy holds us. We breathe, and what we call the next moment between us, where I take your empty hand and we start home, emptied of attempt and emptied of survival skill, is love.

Why were you following me? Or were you after me? No, you weren't after me. It was just that someone, and the someone had to be you, was upsetting the balance of the emptiness of my nights, in which nothing could touch me - not even memories, not even desire - in which there was no other presence to threaten my vulnerability.

porque esa riqueza que es juventud se pierde día con día, y por tanto habría que gozarla día con día, alegre, frenéticamente, para sólo dejarle a la muerte un cuerpo enteramente gastado, vacío, sin una gota de vida por vivir...

Silence had blown its empty wind over Manila and everything seemed to sleep in the arms of nothingness.

just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life.that is why our time,being the most intensely technical,is also the emptiest in all human history.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

All things arise when the appropriate conditions are present, and all things pass away as conditions change. Behind the process, there is no "self" who is running the show.