Quotes About Emptiness

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?

Now is this golden crown like a deep wellThat owes two buckets filling one another;The emptier ever dancing in the air,The other down, unseen and full of water:That bucket down and full of tears am I,Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.

Clean starved for a look.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

The saying is true, "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."

In the dead vast and middle of the night.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

So that almost a doubt within me springs   Of Providence, such emptiness at length   Seems at the heart of all things. But, great God!   I measure back the steps which I have trod

Why do people attend the movies and go dancing? Because [327] they are empty. They do not have God as their joy. The reason I do not attend the movies is not because the church has a regulation against it. The church does not have a list of commandments against such things. However, although there is no such prohibition, I would not attend a movie even if you paid me thousands of dollars to do it. I have something better. I am filled with Christ and I have no capacity for anything else.

nothing on earth is lovable or trustworthy.

I know neither day nor night, and the whole world fades around me.

Sex without love is an empty experience ... but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

Yes, but–as empty experiences go–it's one of the best!

This is another condition of art; to have no inside, nothing you cannot see.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.

Huizi barely called anyone. He didn't get too involved with the details of his friends' lives. He was private, shut tight like a fortress. His short crew-cut and refined manners gave him the air of a Buddhist monk. Huizi would say never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

Maybe there's a place out there where people whose hearts aren't empty can go on living.