Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn. — Ray Bradbury
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are… — Marilyn French
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. — Meister Eckhart
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. — Arthur Erickson
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is… — Eric Hoffer
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. — Eric Hoffer
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into… — Helen Keller
What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one… — George Martin
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I… — Edvard Munch
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only… — M. Scott Peck
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. — Antonio Porchia
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any… — Sharon Salzberg
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness… — Susan Polis Schutz
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an… — Merle Shain
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear… — Milan Kundera
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness — Michael Chabon
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. — Kurt Vonnegut
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the… — Paul Auster
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. — Khalil Gibran
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb… — Jeanette Winterson
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without… — Alex Haley
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting… — Soren Kierkegaard
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and… — Frank Herbert

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