Quotes About Emptiness

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

A desert is a place without expectation.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

My father passed away in 1994 and I cancelled all my plans. After I lost him, I didn't know what to do and sat idle for many days. I got frustrated and angry for even little things.

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

Sometimes I like to be more simple - simple colours, to be completely empty.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Nightlife is, to me, a little synthetic, a little desperate?

That's what happens when people take away their love, Bea. It makes you smaller. Sometimes, it makes you disappear.

That's what happens when people take away their love, Bea. It makes you smaller. Sometimes it makes you disappear" -Sheila

He'd need something to fill his lonely nights, because Molly sure as shooting wasn't interested in him any longer.

Qué pasa, qué pasa. Y no sentí miedo. Y no sentí tristeza. Y no sentí nada. Porque todo eso lo había sentido tanto que ya ni cuenta me daba si era que siempre lo estaba sintiendo o si ya no lo podía volver a sentir aunque quisiera.

If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.

Full awakening called for humility in emptiness.