Quotes About Emptiness

Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

I have nothing and I am everything.

I don't see why I should bother to look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

God...never again allow me to be satisfied with only my own company. [May I] never feel afraid of needing someone, or of suffering. For there is no suffering worse than the dark grey room where pain cannot reach...

I'll make love with them in their houses or in the woods, I'll feel a certain degree of pleasure, but the moment I reach orgasm, the feeling of emptiness will return.

They exchanged glances that meant absolutely nothing.

Oh, there is a loneliness which befalls me now and then and it is something more than death.

When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha" means that when you see that you're grasping or clinging to anything, whether conventionally it's called good or bad, make friends with that. Look into it. Get to know it completely and utterly. In that way it will let go of itself.

Good or bad, happy or sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

When we stop seeking the familiarity of samsara, when we stop fighting the groundlessness of freedom from imputed meaning, emptiness becomes an experience of awe, of the infinite, of limitless pace.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

Too much information about nothing.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.