Quotes About Emptiness

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Pain, the idea that something that is gone forever can nonetheless remain so cruelly alive.

Life is a dinner party without a host. And, frequently, without a dinner party either.

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

Dear: I am dying without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come. Best always, Frank

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.

Someday I will have nothing left to lose. I can't wait.

When I drive 'home' and leave you, it makes me feel like I'm driving to nowhere - to nothing - to a place that doesn't make me feel.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

The true Self or Buddha-nature is precisely this nothingness or emptiness (sunyata).

A white wall is the fool's paper.

Sometimes I feel I have nothing in common with anyone. I shamble through the day, […] and each new hour with each new person is a cliff I can't climb —

It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.

What is going to happen? What will the future bring? I do not know, I have no presentiment. When a spider flings itself from a fixed point down into its consequences, it continually sees before it an empty space in which it can find no foothold, however much it stretches. So it is with me; before me is continually an empty space, and I am propelled by a consequence that lies behind me. This life is turned around and dreadful, not to be endured.

Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.

Maybe to exist as a thing separate from other things is itself pain.

The entire universe has no gaps to accommodate space." Space is not emptiness between one solid thing and another solid thing. Those solid things are

The entire universe has no gaps to accommodate space." Space is not emptiness between one solid thing and another solid thing. Those solid things are also space, or emptiness.

Whereas all her life her mother had more often than not been in conflict not only with others but with herself, her own circumstances, angry about one thing or another, mostly dissatisfied and even resentful of her lot in life, now she seemed to have let that go. But in its stead, there appeared to be nothing. As if she had finally fully burned her ability to care about anything in the long-stoked fire of her discontent. And now she was empty.

Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.

She says nothing to Tony as she goes by, and he says nothing to her. Two people in the same house with zero to give each other.