Emptiness Quotes

634 Emptiness quotes by 456 unique authors

He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me.… — Haruki Murakami
How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? — Ray Bradbury
So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big… — Jack Finney
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at… — Fernando Pessoa
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents,… — Umera Ahmed
You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of… — Koushun Takami
There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your… — R A Salvatore
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature… — Tom Robbins
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness. — Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease. — Rick Warren
She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that… — Kristin Cashore
Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar,… — Megan Whalen Turner
Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed,… — Isak Dinesen
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. — Richard Yates
The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how… — Ariel Gore
Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back… — Xiaolu Guo
My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my… — Katherine Paterson
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking… — Helene Cixous
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen
This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. It was not my intention… — Buddy Wakefield
Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness. — David Foster Wallace
You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And… — Anne Lamott
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone.… — Vikram Seth
She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings. — Paolo Giordano
She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.” He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions only.” “Hug me.”… — Derek Landy

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