“Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“God has only to give you what you want to make you feel the emptiness of it!...You will generally notice that when… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“For many who are alone, because their partner has died or they have separated from them, a sudden, unfamiliar emptiness is the… — Janett Menzel Copy Share Image
I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz Copy Share Image
I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back… — Ivor Cutler Copy Share Image
You have to begin to trust that your experience of emptiness is not the final experience,that beyond it is a place where… — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
I could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“I’ve been grasping at nothing, running in circles, trying desperately to fill the emptiness inside with nothing but air. If I think… — Kerry Cohen Copy Share Image
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart,… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Emptiness is emptiness. San Francisco or Delhi. Wherever you go, the emptiness surrounds you. Silence will follow you wherever you go.” — H.W.L. Poonja Copy Share Image
“The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has… — Nāgārjuna Copy Share Image
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“The field of boundless emptiness is what exists from the very beginning. You must purify, cure, grind down, or brush away all… — Yi Wu Taigen Leighton Copy Share Image
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name,… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years.… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
As with any loss in life and love, a hole filled with air is still a hole. Simply covering a hole created… — Michael Travis Copy Share Image
“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived.… — Michelle de Kretser Copy Share Image
You are not the one who experiences liberation; you are the clearing, the opening, the emptiness, in which any experience comes and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
