Quotes About Emptiness

Por la tarde encendió el teléfono después de cada clase, pero seguía sin llegarle nada, ni la mínima respuesta; la misma agresividad en forma de ausencia.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.

There is a fundamental irony at work. More and more of us keep pouring into the region, in no small part because it seems relatively empty compared to the rest of the country. What attracts us we then ruin.

In American prisons, which are extraordinarily violent places, the most vicious form of punishment is simply to lock a person in an empty room for years with absolutely nothing to do. This emptying of any possibility of communication or meaning is the real essence of what violence really is or does.

Sorgen dömer den levande till en ensamhet utan like, som ensamheten i vilken sjukdomen innesluter den sjuke -

Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas.... Abraxas [is] life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness. [Abraxas] is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning. It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness. It is holy begetting. It is love and love's murder. It is the appearance and the shadow of man.

Without beginning, without end, Without past, without future. A halo of light surrounds the world of law. We forget one another, quiet and pure, altogether powerful and empty. The emptiness is irradiated by the light of the heart and of heaven. The water of the sea is smooth and mirrors The moon in its surface. The clouds disappear in blue space; the mountains shine clear. Consciousness reverts to contemplation; The moon-disk rests alone.31

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

In meditation, you can watch thoughts emerge from emptiness and return back to that emptiness. This leads first to the realization that you are separate from those thoughts, which we normally identify with self.

wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. Lose your child and you're… nothing. —Tennessee Williams

While death may look like a loss to the living, the last hours of a dying person may very well be filled with fullness rather than emptiness.

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

Many people feel they are missing someone

You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.

David Foster Wallace: It just makes me a person that's really exhausted a couple other ways to live, you know? And really taken them, taken them to their conclusion. Which for me was a pink room, with no furniture and a drain in the center of the floor.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

God is a lonely place without steak.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves.

No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!