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Quotes About Emptiness

I understand serial killers' emptiness.
~ Unknown
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Thank you for nothing.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Las frases, cuanto más profundas, son más vacías. No hay profundidad mayor que la de un pozo sin fondo.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Cuando alguien imprescindible se va de tu lado, vuelves los ojos a tu interior y no encuentras más que banalidad, porque los vivos, comparados con los muertos, resultamos insoportablemente banales
~ Miguel Delibes
The price one pays for changing goals whenever opposition threatens is that while one may achieve a more pleasant and comfortable life, it is likely that it will end up empty and void of meaning.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In other words, with nothing to do, the mind is unable to prevent negative thoughts from elbowing their way to center stage.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All the waters in the oceans won't fill a bucket with a hole in it
~ Mike Carey
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
~ Mike Royko
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
~ Milan Kundera
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
~ Milan Kundera
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
~ Milan Kundera
If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart; If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be; And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me; And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.
~ Milarepa
When she was there, she had not loved it enough.
~ Min Jin Lee
She would have uprooted herself to have seen the world with him, and now she was seeing it without him.
~ Min Jin Lee
Em persegueixo més ençà dels sentits perquè hi ha sempre algun íntim espai de mi que em manca.
~ Unknown
Cansadament potser, o tal vegada més allunyat que mai del joc que incita, espero algun senyal, una paraula o un gest tal volta que reveli tota la densitat del buit que m'acompanya i em torni la perduda lucidesa.
~ Unknown
En un home de fusta em converteixo per vell i per mesell i solitari. Tot m'és sobrer fora de tu que em manques i tot m'emplena tanmateix de vida. No moriré de mort fantasiosa, sinó d'una absurda i lenta malaltia que em podrirà com us podriu vosaltres.
~ Unknown
El buit és un preu alt per sobreviure quan no voldries més que reposar i beure a petits glops la poca vida que et falta per viure. Consirós i lúcid et revoltes - contra què No pots fugir de tu mateix ni ho vols. Tota pregunta ha esdevingut inútil i ho seria també tota resposta.
~ Unknown
Ya no me sentía completa. Pero entonces me di cuenta con gran pesar de que en el fondo nunca me había sentido completa. Y esa atroz reflexión me detuvo en seco. Era joven, tanto que de alguna manera era culpa mía que estuviese incompleta, pensé. No sabía que todo el mundo se siente así, que la parte esencial del desarrollo de las personas consiste en detectar cuáles son nuestros espacios vacíos y aprender a llenarlos uno mismo.
~ Unknown
Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
~ Miranda July
She was a very beautiful person who was missing something very ugly. Her winnings were the absence of something, and this quality hung around her.
~ Miranda July
He drank the cotton-candy milk from the day at the pier. The last batch was from the morning she left and this milk was full of plans I didn't know about. When he finished that bottle she was really gone, every last drop of her.
~ Miranda July