Emptiness Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“The drum, at any rate, from its martial voice and notable physiological effect, nay, even from its cumbrous and comical shape, stands alone among…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“without noise of drums or”

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

— Anthony de Mello

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

— Robert Fripp

The silence is so loud. My emptiness is a crowd.

— Livefree2dream44

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

— John Lyly

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

— Masao Abe

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

— Alfred Brendel

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…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

— Suzanne Finnamore