Emptiness Quotes · Page 11

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

— Dorothy Gilman

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

— Ronald Reagan

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

— Bodhidharma

“When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

— Zhuangzi

“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really? How did that happen?’ ‘it all just…

— Francine Rivers

“The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no…

— John Ashbery

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

— Rumi

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I…

— Sylvia Plath

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form…

— Cornel West

“I finally realized that it’s possible to love within a space that sometimes holds nothing but emptiness.. or nothing but darkness. After…

— T.M. Frazier

Some people are like balloons. They seem all big and mighty, floating above everyone else. But really, they are just filled with…

— Anonymous

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

— Anthony de Mello

I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will…

— Marya Hornbacher

“I was barely breathing now, my head felt light. I stumbled to the nearest bench and I clasped my hands together, my…

— Tamara Thiel

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we…

— Anonymous

“[...] we must recognize that in our own experience of emptiness, that even though one feels "empty", one must have a self…

— Susan Griffin

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips…

— Seneca the Younger

“That was the trouble. The land is too big out there, and after a while it starts to swallow you up. I…

— Paul Auster

“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image…

— Alan Lightman

Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.”

— Sidney Knight

I feel lonely when you're not around,when you gone faraway from me my hearts feel empty without you...

— Anonymous

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

— Jean Kilbourne

Theres something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

— Anonymous

“Days are seldom empty. They are always full. Emptiness is within us.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

— Kristen Stewart

Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”

— Jackson Pearce

“A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.”

— Ryan Lilly

“The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Whatever is dependently co-arisen That is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation Is itself the Middle Way.”

— Nāgārjuna

“She was like the moon, she told herself. This emptiness was merely a phase she needed to traverse in order to be…

— Hafsah Faizal

“I am left with a feeling and I cannot tell if it's emptiness or fullness.”

— Samantha Schutz

I saw that my life was a vast glimmering empty page and I could do anything I wanted

— Anonymous