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Quotes About Emptiness

Nothing could ever bring my mother back or make it okay that she was gone. Nothing would put me beside her the moment she died. It broke me up. It cut me off. It tumbled me end over end.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Life is a bitch when the only woman you can think of belongs to someone else.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Sometimes you know that no one can replace the person you love, and your heart will never be the same.
~ Cheyenne McCray
Having picked some tea, he drank it, Then he sprouted wings, And flew to a fairy mansion, To escape the emptiness of the world....
~ Chiao Jen
É sempre bom lembrar que um copo vazio está cheio de ar.
~ Chico Buarque
Worse than seeing a spider is suddenly no longer seeing that spider.
~ Saying
Whenever you lose a loved one, even though your heart feels empty, always remember that it is still full — of love and thankfulness and memories.
~ Terri Guillemets
The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.
~ Emily Williams
It is very easy to love alone.
~ Gertrude Stein
I didn't lose you. You lost me. You'll search for me inside of everyone you're with & I won't be found.
~ R.H.Sin
Emptiness is emptiness. San Francisco or Delhi. Wherever you go, the emptiness surrounds you. Silence will follow you wherever you go.
~ H.W.L. Poonja
All desires actually end in freedom. Your desire is fulfilled and you are empty. The emptiness brings you happiness, but it is unconscious. You attribute your happiness to a possession, not the emptiness. It is the freedom from desire that gives you happiness.
~ H.W.L. Poonja
Can you show how you missed me?" The baby placed both hands on her stomach, saying "Miss you here.
~ Ha Jin
The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
The waves dying a natural death on the beach seemed to have traveled vast distances bearing neither life nor hope.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
consciousness of disappearance and nothingness, a conspiracy to death
~ Haimer abdou
metaphysical emotion, is a plot to nothingness
~ Haimer abdou
I only know that since he left, My life's so empty. Though I try to forget, It just can't be done.
~ Hal David
So, what do you do? - Nothing. - What kind of nothing? - The nothing kind of nothing.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work.
~ Halsey
I saw you yesterday and felt a funeral inside. Like someone I love died, and they asked if I wanted to see the body.
~ Halsey
There were moments of a morning or at sunset when the plain was splendid as a tranquil sea, and in such moments I bowed down to its mysterious beauty--but for the most part it seemed an empty, desolate, mocking world.
~ Hamlin Garland
Desire is an attempt to fill the void
~ Hamza Yusuf
Imam Mawl?d speaks next about freedom, which is achieved when one realizes the qualities of shame and humility, and empties oneself of their opposites (shamelessness and arrogance).
~ Hamza Yusuf