Quotes About Emptiness

To be hungry must be awful.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

I'm incapable of feeling any joy.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

Hell is not to love any more, madame. Not to love any more!

The death of a child, the most sorrowful of all the mysteries.

I feel nothing except a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

Nobody lived in Eden anymore.

Qu'y a-t-il de plus jouissif que de s'arrêter de penser ? Cesser enfin ce flot débordant d'idées plus ou moins utiles ou plus ou moins importantes. S'arrêter de penser ! Comme si on était mort tout en pouvant redevenir vivant. Être le vide. Retourner aux origines suprêmes. N'être même plus quelqu'un qui ne pense à rien. Être rien. Voilà une noble ambition.

No hay palabras que sean como el agua destilada, insustanciales, ajenas a la vida y al mundo.

Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.

Three Treasures: the Buddha, which refers to the world of oneness; the Dharma, which is the world of form; and the Sangha, or the relationship that says the two are really the same thing. We begin such study the simple way, by seeing the world of oneness, of emptiness.

If you stuffed a ship full to bursting point with human bodies, there would be such loneliness that they would all freeze.

jOrdnung ist heutzutage meistens dort, wo nichts ist. Es ist eine Mangelerscheinung.

Geh ich zeitig in die Leere Komm ich aus der Leere voll Wenn ich mit dem Nichts verkehre Weiß ich wieder, was ich soll Wenn ich liebe, wenn ich fühle Ist es eben auch Verschleiß Aber dann, in der Kühle Werd ich wieder heiß

words exclaimed in an empty room are pure self-conscience, the narcissist's folly.

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.

The ache driving through her was terrible. Now she knew the awful truth of it. She could love these books with all the learning and wisdom they represented with everything that was in her, but they would never love her back. She needed to be held just now, and only a pair of human arms that moved at the impulse of a human heart could provide that. There were some needs that knowledge, however grand, however necessary, could never fill".

From cold or horror I could not speak. The sodden blanket was heavy, the coldness in my heart flowed out and turned the whole world cold—there was no warm place. The thoughts I had frozen in order not to feel them grew monstrous, freezing everything else.

Once again, I had made my world a very small place, and I didn't want to live there.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of...death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it's only a bit of space carved out of air.