Emptiness Quotes · Page 12

“And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them.”

— Michael Parker

“Before you see the void behind his eyes. The emptiness where a soul should be.”

— Luke Scull

“After a lifetime of seeking meaning, I arrive here... where understanding nothing feels like the only true understanding.”

— Monika Ajay Kaul

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

— Sun Tzu

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with…

— Dante Alighieri

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

— Margaret Mitchell

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

— Masao Abe

Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness,…

— Bob Beauprez

I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are.…

— Marya Hornbacher

When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do,…

— Jandy Nelson

“[T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling…

— Rachel Kushner

“Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me…

— Philip Larkin

I feel very short-attention span for like accomplishment. It's like 'oh that felt really good' and then it's kind of like an…

— Borns

The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of…

— Paul Althaus

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we…

— Frederick Lenz

“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back.…

— Louise Erdrich

“From time to time, we all must go unto a landscape—be it inner or outer landscape—where there are no hiding places. Allowing…

— L.M. Browning

“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered,…

— Italo Calvino

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd…

— Vladimir Bartol

“And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing.…

— Virginia Woolf

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.…

— Pema Chodron

Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. Existing where there is nothing is the meaning of the phrase, "Form…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

It pleases the Father that all fullness should be in Christ; therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.

— William Gadsby

“Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness. Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas.”

— Toba Beta

“Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife”

— NIkki Gemmell

What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

— Karl Jaspers

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

— Tabitha Suzuma

“You can tell about people by their absences. By the shape of the emptiness they leave behind.”

— Elaine Clark McCarthy

“Despair requires hope—some faint flicker of belief that things might change. I have none.”

— Jonathan Harnisch

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

— Carl Sagan

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

— Anonymous

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know…

— Sebastian Horsley

There are a thousand miles of emptiness that separates us, but that doesn't make our love any less real.

— Alex Johnson

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

— Bruce Lee

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

— Abbi Glines

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

— James Hillman

What you feel as emptiness is lifes new home, and what you feel as loneliness is the urge to hold lifes hand…

— Senoraroy