Emptiness Quotes
In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulthen, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.
Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness.
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.
Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light.
Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.
Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.
This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.
The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.
Stop. Breathe. Allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing for a moment, or an hour, or even a day. It is in emptiness that inspiration will appear.
Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul
The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.