Quotes About Emptiness

Never having something is different than having something and losing it.

Il n'y a pas de plus grande émotion que d'entrer dans le désert.

I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.

I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.

hungry for breath like a kite falling stray, the wire grows slack the child within pulls at the empty air.

Reece nodded, remembering all that his friends had done to help him avenge his family and his Team. There had been an emptiness to those killings. Born of pure rage, their purpose had been death unto itself. What he'd done since Freddy tracked him down in Mozambique had been different. The purpose of the killing he'd done on this new mission had been life.

So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.

And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.

The Abandoned Valley" Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?

I came back from the funeral and crawled around the apartment, crying hard, searching for my wife's hair. For two months got them from the drain, from the vacuum cleaner, under the refrigerator, and off the clothes in the closet. But after other Japanese women came, there was no way to be sure which were hers, and I stopped. A year later, repotting Michiko's avocado, I find a long black hair tangled in the dirt.

Meanwhile" Loneliness is the mother's milk of America.

Not me, girl dear, not me in the whole wide world. You need a man…I'm just a corpse walking.

My witness is the empty sky.

It's a cold, stark emptiness that has no laughter in it. No compassion, and no mercy. It's feral. Like the eyes of a hunting animal.

It was strange how, when there was nothing else in your life, sex was everything.

what Buddhist writers call the clear open sky of awareness. It is empty like space, but unlike space it is sentient; it knows experience. In its true state, consciousness is simply this knowing

There is love, and everything else is staring into the abyss.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence.

During this period I feel as if some part of myself has been banished to another part of the world.I feel as if I cannot live my life to the full and feel everything I'm capable of feeling unless I have this love. The pleasure goes from me; the delight goes. Nothing means anything.

To be filled by the Spirit you must be empty of yourself and full of God.

Death is ear-splitting, it's shattering with absence; over time, it's quieter.

what does it matter if I've become mute in a world where there is no one to talk to?

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.