Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And,… — Haruki Murakami
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. — Simone Weil
And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly — James Herriot
Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the… — Khaled Hosseini
What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome… — Steve Aylett
Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.… — Marcus Aurelius
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain. — W G Sebald
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so… — Carl Sagan
As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear —… — Mother Teresa
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people… — William Butler Yeats
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. — Charles Spurgeon
I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself… — Edith Wharton
I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden… — Guy de Maupassant
True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which… — Jack Kornfield
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination… — Unknown Author
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. — Sarah Dessen
It's only through form that we can realize emptiness — Jack Kerouac
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. — Jonathan Safran Foer
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know… — Mother Teresa
I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My… — Jenny Downham
I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the… — Janet Fitch
This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold… — Juliet Marillier

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