Quotes About Emptiness

emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experiences.

Dale stepped over to the large console radio and wrestled it away from the wall. The inside was empty. No wires, no tubes, no lights for the dial, no works at all. Dale looked at the interiors of the other radios he'd listened to over the past two months. All empty.

Weltschmerz

WHEREVER I AM, I AM WHAT IS MISSING.

Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.

No soy diferente, en absoluto, no soy distinta a otra mota cualquiera. Soy una imperfección imperfecta, una ruina ruinosa, unos restos manchados y tan destrozados que soy incapaz de descubrir lo que era antes. No soy nada, nada de nada

What does it mean? Where does something like this come from? How can you find it again,just what you wanted at just the right time? Never,probably. It's empty and nothing now, I don't even know why I kept it, and I'll keep it no more.

It's why we broke up, Ed, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place.

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it to me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

What has happened to me? Why am I so alone in the world?

Me, a nothingness zombie in a nothingness box in a nothingness hell.

My mind is a blank. At this point my feelings are more important than anything else.

As the boy's vacant eyes moved across the crowd of amused onlookers, he slowly mirrored their smiles and finally broke into an uncertain grin at the joke which he did not understand. I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile – the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please, and I realized what I had recognized in him.

to be nothing is to enter into totality

When myriad experiences leave no trace, how great! To practice like this is liberation.

Nothing is fixed; she gets hooked by, hooks onto, nothing.

One of the causes of our suffering comes from the presence, in the deepest part of ourselves, of a kind of nostalgia for unity that sometimes surfaces with great force not only during infancy and adolescence but also in adulthood.

"Life without Christ is like a vacuum cleaner without the electrical electrical cord plugged in. It has no power to suck up the dirt."

You only lose what you cling to.

Missing someone and not being able to see them is the worst feeling ever.

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

Of all the things I miss the thing I miss the most is my mind.