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Quotes About Emptiness

The sound of his car as it whines out of the driveway, then speeds away, has the ring of finality; all of them hear it. Silence settles over the house like ash.
~ Celeste Ng
simply went on as if she'd never existed. As he stands there, he knows the photos
~ Celeste Ng
Kuruyan bir deniz gibiyim bazan. Y?ld?zlar? sönmü? bir gök gibiyim. ?ncilerimi sokakta da??tt?m. Kendimi öylesine verdim ki sana, kelimeler beni terkettiler.
~ Cemil Meriç
uçurumdan kurtulman?n tek yolu ona bakmak, derinliÄŸini ölçmek ve kendini o boÅŸluÄŸa b?rakmakt?r.
~ Cesare Pavese
no ya prisionero entre muros y barrotes, sino aislado en un vacío frío, que el mundo ignoraba. Ahí estaba el verdadero castigo: que el mundo excluyera al recluso. No anhelaba tanto salir como que el mundo entrase en mi vacío y lo coloreara, lo calentara con ademanes o palabras.
~ Cesare Pavese
Tov?r??ia m?rii îmi ajunge.Nu vreau pe nimeni.În via?? nu am nimic al meu.L?saÅ£i-mi cel puÅ£in marea.
~ Cesare Pavese
In vajrayana practice, students identify with the different styles of awakened energy by visualizing themselves as deities. These visualizations arise out of and dissolve back into emptiness.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Ah ternyata hatimu yang tak memberi. Mampus kau dimakan sepi
~ Chairil Anwar
Yang terampas dan yang putus... Kelam dan angin lalu mempesiang diriku, Menggigir juga ruang di mana dia yang kuingin, Malam tambah merasuk, rimbajadi semati tugu. ....
~ Chairil Anwar
Everything, alas, is an abyss, -- actions, desires, dreams, words!
~ Charles Baudelaire
He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running. He closed his eyes. ("Hunger")
~ Charles Beaumont
But what was it all about? Ego, that's all. There was no love there. Just a lot of drinking and a lot of ego. Both of them will kill you. They
~ Charles Brandt
I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.
~ Charles Bukowski
I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.
~ Charles Bukowski
there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
~ Charles Bukowski
It was finally all out of me... I was as pure and empty as the flames moving in front of me.
~ Charles Burns
They have no heart attack, since they have no heart. (De crise cardiaque ils n'ont, - Puisque de cœur ils n'ont.)
~ Charles de Leusse
I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
~ Charles Dickens
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.
~ Charles Dickens
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
~ Charles Dickens
And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming.
~ Charles Dickens
She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she came into a vacancy in my heart, which closed upon her, and I felt towards her something I have never felt for any other human being
~ Charles Dickens
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.
~ Charles Dickens
Rooms get an awful look about them when they are fitted up, like these, for one person you are used to see in them, and that person is away under any shadow: let alone being God knows where.
~ Charles Dickens