I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. And…

“Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.”

— R.A. Salvatore

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've…

— Margaret Atwood

“The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness.”

— Lao Tzu

Its almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was…

— John Green

“I’d like to be half of something. I’d like that emptiness to go away.”

— J.A. Huss

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath…

— Peggy Lipton

Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with…

— Pema Chodron

“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place.…

— James Frey

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than…

— Milan Kundera

“those of little merit would not even have doubts about this doctrine of emptiness. even suspicion that objects are empty wrecks the seeds of…

— aryadeva

“ Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might…

— Shusaku Endo

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

— Alan Lightman

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,…

— Paulo Coelho

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

— Sun Tzu

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes