Quotes About Emptiness

Do not be afraid of the empty place. It is the source we must return to if we are to be free of the stories and habits that entrap us.

He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

Lifeless with a heartbeat.

REALITY, n. The nucleus of a vacuum.

I am so very absent. The world is overcrowded with my absence. Life is where I am not. No matter where I am…

Those flowers! How wonderful it would have been if they had been hers! If she had been a girl with friends who could send farewell greetings in such a costly style! Why, all these gifts, the wedding that had preceded them, had been but the fulfillment of her childish fairy dreamings—all the things she had most wished for in life—and now they had come, and how empty they were! How one's heart could starve in the midst of plenty!

Remoeu umas coisas guturais e começou a roncar. Impossível qualquer aproximação. O isolamento em companhia de uma pessoa era mais opressivo que a solidão completa. Parecia-me que aquele homem estava morto.

That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

When a woman's wave rises she feels she has an abundance of love to give, but when it falls she feels her inner emptiness and needs to be filled up with love.

In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness of the ceilings, the soft, unanswered noises of his movement past her room. After

I was free. Free also means nothing.

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

Maybe it was always simple: Loss surrounds us. Who would deny it? We ourselves are loss, are lost.

We Americans are great on fillers, as if what we have, what we are, is not enough…. We have only to look at the houses we build to see how we build against space, the way we drink against pain and loneliness. We fill up space as if it were a pie shell, with things whose opacity further obstructs our ability to see what is already there.

So much has broken away already, there is nothing to drink but air, nothing left to walk on but water, yet the fasting heart grows full.

Je buvais à pleins verres les étoiles" (Mes amis m'ont enfin avoué leur mépris)

L'amour, tu vois, c'est comme l'oxygène, si on en manque trop longtemps on finit par en mourir. Tu m'as tellement aimée en quelques mois que j'ai eu des réserves d'amour pendant des années. Grâce à elles, j'ai pu affronter beaucoup de choses, mais j'arrive au bout de mes réserves, Martin.

What have I left,from loving you? Just my voice,with no sudden echo Just my fingers,which grasp nothing Just my skin,which seeks your hands And above all fear,of loving you still Tomorrow,almost dead. Charles Aznavour

So nah war ich dir, dass mir kalt wird in der Nähe der anderen.

the water in this cave is small but we begin to heal and it is better water than the last water no water should bring pain water should not be flat water should not be smooth water should not be empty water should not have a shape there is no shape of water

Il mondo intero era ridotto a polvere e cenere; e la mia anima era nelle stesse condizioni.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.