Quotes About Emptiness

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

Sevgi yok senin içinde. Vard?, beni öldürmeye yetecek kadar.

De todos los animales de la creación el hombre es el único que bebe sin tener sed, come sin tener hambre y habla sin tener nada que decir.

He tries to picture how it will end, with an empty baseball field, a dark factory, and then over a brook in a dirt road, he doesn't know. He pictures a huge vacant field of cinders and his heart goes hollow.

The six o'clock news is all about space, all about emptiness: some bald men plays with little toys to show the docking and undocking maneuvers, and then a panel talks about the significance of this for the next five hundred years. They keep mentioning Columbus but as far as Rabbit can see it's the exact opposite: Columbus flew blind and hit something, these guys see exactly where they're aiming and it's a big round nothing.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

if I can perceive myself as transparent or empty, then what comes toward me can go through me and out the door.

winter is no stranger to cold hearts.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Because there wasn't anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn't happened, though. At least not yet.

"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.

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

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it's struggle, it's ugly, it's horrific, it's dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

It is better to live alone in DARKNESS than to be in LIGHT with people full of darkness INSIDE.