Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost. — John Green
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up. — Charles Spurgeon
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down… — Annie Dillard
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. — Eric Hoffer
In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things. — Theodore Roethke
This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along. — Hillary Jordan
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
We become aware of the void as we fill it. — Antonio Porchia
Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from… — Frederick Buechner
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb… — Douglas Coupland
This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity. — Tabitha Suzuma
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies… — Pat Conroy
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go… — Gustave Flaubert
Even across the dark, even across the loss, even across the emptiness, soul will speak to soul — Catherine Fisher
It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful. — Carole Wilkinson
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.… — Maeve Brennan
It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start… — Darren Shan
Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back. — Xiaolu Guo
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all,… — Jean Baudrillard
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to… — Brandon Mull
His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be… — Veronica Roth
…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
But don’t ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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