Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.” — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
“A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.” His” — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I saw that my life was a vast glimmering empty page and I could do anything I wanted — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.” — Melissa Jennings Copy Share Image
“Form is emptiness", the Buddhists teach, but form is also form. I would never be able to approach the emptiness of form… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“Loneliness can drive a person mad. There's a place, in every man's soul, that no friend can reach, only a lover, and… — Tionne Rogers Copy Share Image
There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Be completely sincere in love; don’t love just because you want to fill a void or gratify a desire. Love, because you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“ Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
“She had no idea how to cope with life and she was only vaguely aware of her own inner emptiness. Were she… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Have you ever talked to someone who is well- educated but unhappy? Rich but sad? Talented but depressed? Beautiful but rejected? What… — Reymon Iglesia Copy Share Image
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“A month has passed since I’ve written, but it has seemed to pass much more slowly. Life passes by now like the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
“Because it’s a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you’re not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness."… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
![“I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he…” quote by Joan Halifax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/410/joan-halifax-11817_assuming_i-remember-having-a-discussion-with-kaz_727693.jpg)
