Emptiness Quotes

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

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

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

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.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.