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Emptiness Quotes and Sayings |
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
It is curious how our thoughts seem to come out of the emptiness they are trying to fill.
Richard Krause
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
Sarah Dessen
It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
Jackson Pearce
The usefulness of the cup, is its emptiness.
Bruce Lee
Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because of starvation.
Ilkin Santak
I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.
Kimberly Novosel
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
Antonio Porchia
Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.
Jeanette Winterson
For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.
Gustave Flaubert
Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
D.T. Suzuki
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Jonathan Safran Foer
No emptiness in universe, love permeates everything.
Toba Beta
Feeling empty may be a sign of modern times, and a natural evolution of our needs.
Selena Vera Hey
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
Dejan Stojanovic
Become totally empty; Quiet the restlessness of the mind; Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness
Lao Tzu
Empty packets of hot sauce remind me of the love I used to have for her. Now all I’m left with is this yummy taco.
Jarod Kintz
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
Carl Sagan
What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.
Frederick Barthelme
It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
James Richardson
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
If the mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
David Foster Wallace
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
Dejan Stojanovic
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
Dejan Stojanovic
When nothing becomes the vocal
Then nothing becomes the focal
And nothing’s becoming at all
Kate Kaiser
Life is an empty bottle filled with love.
Santosh Kalwar
Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.
Rick Warren
Tell me what is this thing that i feel like I'm missing and why can't I let it go.
Anonymous