Quotes About Emptiness

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

It's pathetic. It's a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He's constantly filling himself up.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. [...] Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. [...] If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.

They had moved, as she had moved symbolically, from the built monastery near the loch to the emptiness of the mountains. Left behind the hushed, thick, sombre atmosphere of organised religion and travelled up to where there was simplicity and balance. Not the indulgence of the secluded life, neither the gratification of service, nor the voluptuousness of identity. No, here was aloneness. The nothing of it. Just to be small, a conscious part of the whole

How many more burdens do you think you can bear alone? How many more years can I go on alone, without you? Our days are filled from dawn to dusk, honey, but our lives are empty.

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

Summer seems so cold without you, winter is even colder.

The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.

Where are the books? All these elegant bookshelves are empty.

The world is too quiet without you nearby.

Leave a space and something will fill it.

Mother, you had me, but I never had you.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

I miss you already.

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She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink.