Quotes About Emptiness

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

If you said to me, "I do not love, I have never loved," then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say "I do not hate, I have never hated," then you sound like half a man.

Losing him would, she realised, be unlike anything she had ever experienced before. A marriage is a conspiracy, a shared aspect toward the rest of the society, a code devised over a long history of negotiation and habit. That code would vanish. Her thoughts would be unobserved, her memories would be hers alone, without the heft that comes from sharing them with another. She would become insubstantial to herself.

All at once I felt myself haunted by a terrible vision, of a world without guidance: a land of emptiness, where all was ruled by the madness of chance. How could one endure such a place, where all significance was lost? I myself would mean nothing, but would merely be a kind of self-invention: a speck upon the wind, calling itself Wilson. I felt my spirit waver, as if it were toppling into the abyss before me.

Si un hombre debe morir, para que viva; debe estar vacío, para poder ser llenado; debe estar perdido, para que pueda ser hallado;

And there I was with the stars hanging above my house like live wires and the night sky the color of stockings. I stuck out my tongue to taste the sky but could not taste. I inhaled deeply but could not smell. I used to look to the sky for comfort and now there was nothing, not even a seam, and I looked down and saw that it did not even reach the ground. And my only company was the satellites counting their sleep

Ati?a, following N?g?rjuna's commentator Candrak?rti, held that although our everyday language adequately describes apparent reality, philosophical discourse nevertheless has a necessary role: not system-building but the criticism of our presuppositions, dismantling them until we arrive at the profound realization of emptiness and the opening that this entails.

More often than not, we come to understand this only after the crisis has passed. It is at the very moment of anger's emergence that we must recognize its empty nature. That understanding will strip thoughts of their power to build into a stream of obsession and oppression. They cross the mind without leaving a trace, like the trackless flight of a bird through the sky.

Les conversations ordinaires sont des « échos d'échos », regrettait l'ermite Patrul Rinpoché. Il suffit d'allumer la télévision ou de se rendre à une soirée mondaine pour être englouti par un déluge de paroles qui non seulement sont inutiles mais exacerbent la convoitise, le ressentiment, la vanité...

Buddhism affirms that the ultimate nature of phenomena is emptiness and that emptiness carries within it an infinite potential of manifestation.

so many women having taken the hero's journey, only to find it personally empty and dangerous for humanity. Women emulated the male heroic journey because there were no other images to emulate;

My sense of touch was floating six feet away from me; if anyone entered my room, I would cry out, but the knife was serenely cutting me up. Yes, I became a skeleton. At night my thinness would rise up before me to terrify me. As it came and went it insulted me, it tired me out; oh, I was certainly very tired.

I feel myself dead – no; I feel myself, living, infinitely more dead than dead.

Each time, Thomas was thrust back into the depths of his being by the very words which had haunted him and which he was pursuing as his nightmare and the explanation of his nightmare. He found that he was ever more empty, ever heavier; he no longer moved without infinite fatigue. His body, after so many struggles, became entirely opaque, and to those who looked at it, it gave the peaceful impression of sleep, though it had not ceased to be awake.

A determinate emptiness: a lack, a privation, a dimension (new type of intellectual existence).

Love is a hollow in us, not the presence of the other.

day from Gubla when she first noticed it missing.

A minha causa é a causa de nada.

There is no god but death.

Here we have a tragedy in shades of naked inertness.

Pusto mi je u duši. Prazno mi je srce.

Znao sam da je sve moje dovedeno u pitanje. Sve — to je veoma neodre?eno, ali i veoma stvarno. To je izgubljenost i bespu?e, to je ispadanje sa životne staze a druga ne postoji, to je osje?anje užasa bez imena, zbog praznine i gluhog prostora što bi se mogao stvoriti oko tebe.

Ni bol ne osje?am, samo prazninu. Zašto je ne zatrpati?

Nepovratno se ose?am kao besku?nik. Nije to sasvim loše, nemam obaveza ni ograni?enja, samo je pomalo prazno. Svejedno mi je kuda ?u po?i kada završim posao. Uvijek sam želio tu potpunu slobodu, a nikud ne polazim, nijednu mogu?nost ne iskoriš?ujem, niti zapravo znam kakve su. Hodamo bez cilja, tražimo se, a kad se na?emo, govorimo o ratu.