Quotes About Emptiness

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

the love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like you're here.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need.

Nothing will come of nothing.