Emptiness Quote by Lao Tzu

“Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.”

— R.A. Salvatore

“I’d like to be half of something. I’d like that emptiness to go away.”

— J.A. Huss

“I imagine that's what being full-dead is like. And emptiness vast and absolute.”

— Isaac Marion

“Lao-tzu didn’t actually say very much more about the meaning of Tao. The Way of Nature, the Way of happening self-so, or, if you…

— Alan Wilson Watts

As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent…

— Laozi

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

— Laozi

The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners.…

— Anonymous

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be…

— Demosthenes

If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a…

— Francis Spufford

“The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]”

— Elias Canetti

I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of…

— Max Brooks

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing…

— Myla Goldberg

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving…

— Tennessee Williams

“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.…

— Stephen King

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison