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Quotes About Emptiness

This means nothing," she said. "Less than nothing," he lied. "I'll hate myself later." "I hate myself now.
~ Gena Showalter
anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.
~ Gena Showalter
The sky was dark and drizzly, as if the world wept for what it had lost.
~ Gena Showalter
Buffo come siano semplici i desideri umani quando si è perso tutto.
~ Gena Showalter
Galen: Give me a minute to find the fucks I give… Galen: Still searching… Galen: Sorry. Can't find a single one.
~ Gena Showalter
To enter the room of the Tathagata is to have great compassion for all living beings. To wear the robe of the Tathagata is to be gentle and patient. To sit on the seat of the Tathagata is to contemplate the emptiness of all things. One should dwell in peace with all three and then, never becoming lazy or careless, teach this Dharma Flower Sutra everywhere to bodhisattvas and the four groups.
~ Gene Reeves
Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.
~ Geneen Roth
A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere.
~ Geoff Dyer
Purple cloud covered his head so that he silently attacked his own blood and likeness, a lunar countenance; stonily sank away into emptiness, when in a broken mirror a dying youth, the sister, appeared; the night engulfed the cursed race.
~ Georg Trakl
The dead paint a sneering silence on the walls With their white hands.
~ Georg Trakl
I rolled over and faced the cracked green wall. I regretted that simple action immediately; it had felt like a slow-motion film with every other frame missing.
~ George Alec Effinger
It was sad and lonely to be left. You'd go to church and stand there for some time. The school had a chapel. The maser would be there with maybe two or three other students. You had to kill time before dinner. I would go to the reception hall and play the piano. There was no one there, total emptiness.
~ George Balanchine
One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
~ George Carlin
E quibus, hi vacuas implent sermonibus aures:
~ George Crabbe
Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
~ George Eliot
There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others.
~ George Eliot
They'll take everything, even your tears.
~ George Foreman
They say the dead have no memories and know no pain." George's voice was barely above a whisper, but somehow it was louder than the pleas of the corpses. "It's not that way for me.
~ Ilona Andrews
His eyes were empty. There was no sadness, no anger, just the watchful emptiness of a predator.
~ Ilona Andrews
How does this even happen? How can someone you love be there one second and then gone the next?
~ Ilona Andrews
Ancora un'ora persa, sprofondata nel nulla, che è colata via tra le dita come acqua e che non tornerà più... Vorrei andarmene lontano, oppure morire....
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
~ Iris Murdoch
How huge it is, how empty, this great space for which I have been longing all my life. Still no letters.
~ Iris Murdoch
And now she had run into an emptiness more final than any words of rejection. He was gone and would make himself a stranger to her for ever.
~ Iris Murdoch