Quotes About Emptiness

But Ireland isn't just landscape, but history and present society. There was famine and brutality and emptiness in the country. And the damaged underclass I was part of in the afternoon pubs was as much part of Ireland as its beauty.

Fa male vedere uomini e donne impegnati in una folle corsa verso la terra promessa del guadagno, dove tutto ciò che li circonda – la natura, gli oggetti, gli altri esseri umani – non suscita alcun interesse.

Sen birden çökeceksin Selim. Çünkü neden? Çünkü için bo? senin. Birden, kollar?m?n aras?nda için bo?alarak; birden üçüncü boyutunu kaybedip bir düzlem olacaks?n ve ben de seni duvarda bir çiviye asaca??m.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynanm??t?r. ?nsan?n içinde ifade edilmez bir eksiklik duygusu kal?r. Her ?ey ba?ka türlü olabilirdi sanki. Bütün bu oyunlar bu kadar da kötü oynanmayabilirdi.

Otuz alt? saattir gene aç?m. Ölümü bekliyorum. Bu arada vaktimi bo? geçirmemek için, okuyorum, yabanc? dil çal???yorum; hiçbir ?ey anlam?yorum. Fakat eskiden de -karn?m?n tok oldu?u zaman da- anlam?yordum.

?nsan?n babas? hayatta bir kere ölür.

Fakat ben oraya zarf koymazd?m. Çünkü zarf?m yoktu evde. Çünkü kimseye mektup yazmad?m. Çünkü kimse bana mektup yazmazd?. Korktum. Çünkü, 'demek ki' diyemeyece?im bir yerlere gelmi?tim. ?çime bir a?r? sapland?. Ne olurdu bir 'demek ki' daha diyebilseydim.

Kendimle biraz olsun alay etmeden, kendi kendime yaratt???m bo?lu?a dayanam?yorum.

That which could hunger, could starve.

Grief hit like that. Something would remind us of the past, of home, of a person, and then we would remember that it was all gone. The person was dead or probably dead. Everything we'd known and treasured was gone.

Interdependence and emptiness show us that there are no fixed starting points. Many people have the idea that they lack what they need in order to start working toward their dreams. They feel they do not have enough power, or they do not have enough money. But they should know that any point is the right starting point. This is the perspective that emptiness opens up. We can start from zero. (17th Karmapa)

Vacuum is all potent because all containing. In vacuum alone motion becomes possible. One who could make of himself a vacuum into which others might freely enter would become master of all situations. The whole can always dominate the part.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words.

Every time you wish the sky was something happening to your heart, you lose twice.

Sometimes it's as if I'm composed of nothing but symptoms of illness, I am a phantom built out of pain.

People are always far away.

?wiat móg? powsta? tylko dlatego, ?e Bóg go opu?ci?. Najpierw by?o co?, a potem tego zabrak?o. To jest ?wiat. ?wiat ca?y jest brakiem.

This was how the end must look. No deluge, no rains of fire, no Auschwitz, no comet. This is how the world will look when God has deserted it, whoever he is. Like an abandoned house, everything coated in cosmic dust, muggy and steeped in silence. Everything living will congeal and grow mold in the light that has no pulse and therefore is dead. In this spectral light everything will crumble.

Gnjev uvijek za sobom ostavlja puno praznoga mjesta na koje se odmah, kao poplava, ulijeva tuga i te?e velika rijeka., bez po?etka i kraja. Suze, opet su se obnovili njihovi izvori." str. 235.

And if he did hesitate for a moment, he would usually come to the conclusion that the truest argument was an old one: the Earth is round. Let us not be too attached, then, to directions. And this was understandable. To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return, since nothing exerts such a draw as emptiness.

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn't take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.

With you I could live, without you I was already dead.

No me agrada esta calma, este silencio muerto, sin carne, puro hueso.

A wheel moved slowly, bearing up into the sky empty carriages shaped like boats.