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Quotes About Emptiness

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.
~ H. G. Wells
I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
~ Holly Black
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
~ Nora Roberts
Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million?
~ Grigori Perelman
What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.
~ Karl Jaspers
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
~ John Updike
I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.
~ Rita Hayworth
When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
~ Gautama Buddha
There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.
~ Paul Bourget
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
~ Alan Moore
Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.
~ William Arthur Ward
I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.
~ Daul Kim
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
~ Ray Bradbury
Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.
~ John McEnroe
We're not meant for happiness, you and I.
~ Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is not the portion of man.
~ Voltaire
I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.
~ Melissa Marr
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world
~ Taylor Caldwell
The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Life has only three states-Happiness, Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.
~ Deshwal Sachin
But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.
~ John Fowles, The Magus