Quotes About Emptiness

there's a difference between having no one because you've chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

Dag na dag, een deel van iedere nacht, zaten wij naast elkaar als vreemden. Glimlachende maskers en levenloze opgevulde pronkgewaden: markies en markiezin van Pescara.

Il embrassa la mer d'un regard et se rendit compte de l'infinie solitude où il se trouvait

He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He

What we're in is a vacuum.

That is about as close as one can get to the greatest loneliness of all, he thought. Being all alone in the world. The final human being, forgotten about.

Something inside me has filled up to the brim, and soon the walls will burst.

There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

Era sfinito, eppure non sentiva alcun desiderio di andare a casa. Ogni sera era la stessa cosa. Tornare a casa significava affrontare un oceano di solitudine.

There is a deep hole in your being, like an abyss. You will never succeed in filling that hole, because your needs are inexhaustible. You have to work around it so that gradually the abyss closes. Since the hole is so enormous and your anguish so deep, you will always be tempted to flee from it. There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

We seem to have a fear of empty spaces. The philosopher Spinoza called this a horror vacui. We want to fill up what is empty. Our lives stay very full. And when we are not blinded by busyness, we fill our inner space with guilt about things of the past or worries about things to come.

Rembrandt portrays the father as the man who has transcended the ways of his children. His own loneliness and anger may have been there, but they have been transformed by suffering and tears. His loneliness has become endless solitude, his anger boundless gratitude. This is who I have to become. I see it as clearly as I see the immense beauty of the father's emptiness and compassion. Can I let the younger and the elder son grow in me to the maturity of the compassionate father?

When we are spiritually deaf, we are not aware that anything important is happening in our lives. We keep running away from the present moment, and we try to create experiences that make our lives worthwhile. So we fill up our time to avoid the emptiness we otherwise would feel.

every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

Why is it, that many parties and friendly get-togethers leave us so empty and sad?

Then occupation is called a blessing and emptiness a curse. Many telephone conversations start with the words: "I know you are busy, but …" and we would confuse the speaker and even harm our reputation were we to say, "Oh no, I am completely free, today, tomorrow and the whole week." Our client might well lose interest in a man who has so little to do.

There is a deep hole in your being, like an abyss. You will never succeed in filling that hole, because your needs are inexhaustible. You have to work around it so that gradually the abyss closes.

Rembrandt portrays the father as the man who has transcended the ways of his children. His own loneliness and anger may have been there, but they have been transformed by suffering and tears. I see the immense beauty of the father's emptiness and compassion.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers?

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

Happiness writes white.

What is left to Lust when its cravings at last subside, as subside in the end they will? It is alone. It has died. It has made no bonds and is in the desert that it has made, with no longer even a craving.

She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone.