Quotes About Emptiness

Everything is possible. I am God, I am Buddha, I am imperfect Ray Smith, all at the same time, I am empty space, I am all things. I have all the time in the world to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing, infinitely perfect within, why cry, why worry, perfect like mind essence and the minds of banana peels.

In fact we're all strangers with strange eyes sitting in a midnight livingroom for nothing

Todo el interior de unas vidas interminables y sin final que es vacío. Lastimosas formas de ignorancia.

Well, now you know me. You know I don't have close relationships with anybody any more - I don't know what to do with these things. I hold things in my hand like pieces of crap and don't know where to put it down.

Everything's alright, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and we're here forever, in one form or another, which is empty. Everything's alright, we're not here, there, or anywhere.

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate. What do you think about death, Ray?

Down in Denver, down in Denver, all I did was die.

I was dealing in outblownness, cut-off-ness, snipped, blownoutness, putoutness, turned-off-ness, nothinghappens-ness, gone-ness, gone-out-ness, the snapped link.

Ci sono troppe cose che mi piacciono e mi confondo e mi perdo a correre da una stella cadente all'altra fino allo sfinimento. (...) Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

It's always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.