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Quotes About Emptiness

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
~ Erich Fromm
I haven't had everything from life. I've had too much.
~ Rita Hayworth
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
~ Michel Houellebecq, Platform
Places that are empty of you are empty of life.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection.
~ Spike Jonze
Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.
~ Thomas Merton
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?
~ Li Bai
Life without pain has no meaning.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?
~ Kenneth Williams
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
~ Green Day
Loneliness has been following me my whole life.
~ Robert De Niro
I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.
~ Dwayne Johnson
Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.
~ N.D. Wilson
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
~ Georg Simmel
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.
~ Jessica Lange
What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.
~ Rumi
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
~ Halle Berry
A woman who is starved for her real soul-life may look 'cleaned up and combed' on the outside, but on the inside she is filled with dozens of pleading hands and empty mouths.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If you have the courage to touch life for the first time, you will never know what hit you. Everything man has thought, felt and experienced is gone, and nothing is put in its place.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
~ Conor Oberst