Quotes About Emptiness

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

All the dreams I'd allowed myself to imagine were nothing but pages swept away by the wind.

You know you're on stage being the life of the party and trying to get laughs, and then, in a lot of ways, you don't have anything to give once you give it to the people.

Christmas is not a time for laughter. Christmas is a time for pain.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

I don't really have any ditties left in me anymore.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

I've never been lonely.

We're constantly losing - we're losing time, we're losing ourselves. I don't feel for the things I lost.

The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.