Quotes About Emptiness

My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

We can be lonely together

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

felt empty, just as they did when Dani climbed out of them

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

You forget about all those things—you're just dominated by the vanishing-ness of things. It's just Gone, Gone, Gone. That, once again, leads to a figure-ground reversal. You are about to become Gone. Good, go with that.

There is one possible negative effect from working with vanishing and the related themes of emptiness and no self. In extreme cases, the sense of Goneness, emptiness, and no self may be so intense that it creates disorientation, terror, paralysis, aversion, or hopelessness. Unpleasant reactions such as these are well documented

It's not intuitively obvious that noting Gone would bring fulfillment, but many people over the ages have discovered this, hence the Sanskrit word nirvana. Are there any other counterintuitive "Gone goodies"? Indeed, yes. There is one more major one.

The shivering that had started six weeks before has turned into violent paroxysms. Let go, child, I whisper to her, as she drools bile and saliva, as her body rattles so hard I hear the emptiness inside. I want her to die; I want the decision not to be mine.

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.