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Quotes About Emptiness

I am not me, I am not a human being.I am empty. Infinite emptiness dwells in me.I am the spirit.Emptiness is me.
~ Debasish Mridha
When you learn to see the beauty in emptiness, your life will become more abundant.
~ Debasish Mridha
Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal
~ What's not there is.
If you are brave enough to empty yourself, then life will fill you again and again.
~ Debasish Mridha
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~ W.S. Merwin
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
~ John Cage
Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
~ Hafez
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.
~ Marvin Bell
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
~ Horace
You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.
~ Kate Bush
I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.
~ Robert M. Drake
You think it's a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.
~ Kristen Henderson
Life is like a poetry, without meaning or purpose - it's useless.
~ Jawwad Zafar
I miss you, I miss you at night, I can't sleep without you anymore, I'm scared. Meet me in heaven.
~ Efdal Korkmaz
It ain't so easy writing about nothin
~ Patti Smith, M Train
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
~ Seneca the Elder
The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.
~ Theodor Adorno
If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The temerity to believe in nothing.
~ Ivan Turgenev
The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, "Who are you?
~ Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
~ Ambrose Bierce
I disappeared in her and she, wondering where I went, left.
~ Will Eno
As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.
~ Will Shortz
I saw bundles of dead raggedy reeds hanging down from the broken ceilings that had depicted heaven. I looked deep into the house's diseased and dying maw. It was like it had been putting on an act the whole time and was only now showing itself as it, in reality, had always been: a hollow, drafty cavern, rancid and rotting at its core.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans