Emptiness Quotes · Page 10

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes…

— Laozi

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

— Saul Bellow

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

— Peter Kreeft

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.

— Paula Radcliffe

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

— Ayn Rand

There's an emptiness inside her, and she'd do anything to fill it in.

— Dave Matthews Band

“I know that I am always alone, even when surrounded by people, so I let the emptiness in.”

— Nina LaCour

“I felt lighter when I had finished, and for once emptiness was a sweet relief and a condition to be treasured.”

— Rachel Hartman

People have to be engaged. Enough of nihilism! Enough of emptiness and defeatism! Fighting for a better world is not only the…

— Andre Vltchek

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people…

— Douglas Coupland

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no…

— Haruki Murakami

Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you…

— Ken Wilber

“It has gone nowhere, you have gone somewhere. We are all nowhere until we go somewhere. Your mind is full again, but…

— Michael Kilman

“That throbbing thing in my chest can hardly be called a heart. It has been wrung out and deformed into something merely…

— Anna Jae

“Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty…

— Etgar Keret

The older we get and the longer we labor in the Church the more there is that we can do. There is…

— George Q. Morris

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became.…

— Haruki Murakami

“You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When…

— Edouard Levé

“Examples of fractals are everywhere in nature. They can be found in the patterns of trees, branches, and ferns, in which each…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Get yourself empty in the Eastern sense. Not in the Western sense. In the Western sense when we feel empty we feel…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy,…

— Laini Taylor

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the…

— Steven Pressfield

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and…

— John Wesley

He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at…

— William Gibson

“Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?”

— Sorin Cerin

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all…

— Hillary Jordan

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

— Candace Bushnell

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

— Adyashanti

“A writer’s silence is the loudest scream; it’s the unwritten chapters of their life that echo in the emptiness of their soul.”

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

“Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

— Robert H. Shaffer

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed…

— Francesca Lia Block

“We are dust furrowed by the painful plough of Destiny to give birth to the emptiness of a time.”

— Sorin Cerin

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

— Frederick Lenz

Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul

— Catherine Fisher

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

— Dejan Stojanovic

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all…

— Adyashanti

“The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.”

— Rae Armantrout

“Theophan the Recluse said, 'Most people are like a shaving of wood which is curled round its central emptiness.”

— Anthony Bloom