Emptiness Quotes | Quotes about Emptiness

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  • Emptiness Quote #1

    [in the true mad north] of introspection,
    where 'falcons of the inner eye'
    dive and die, glimpsing in their
    dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • Emptiness Quote #2

    a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel; really
    it was just the hole that's in the middle
    of all bagels; 'i need to go read my blog
    to find out what my politics are

    Tao Lin

  • Emptiness Quote #3

    A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.

    Shaun Hick

  • Emptiness Quote #4

    A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.

    Ryan Lilly

  • Emptiness Quote #5

    Absence casts the longest shadow.

    Marty Rubin

  • Emptiness Quote #6

    afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes wherever the affliction leads it, and 'accumulates' a bad action.

    there are a great many different kinds of afflictions, but the chief of them are desire, hatred, pride, wrong view and so forth. of these, desire and hatred are chief. because of an initial attachment to oneself, hatred arises when something undesirable occurs. further, through being attached to oneself the pride that holds one to be superior arises, and similarly when one has no knowledge of something, a wrong view that holds the object of this knowledge to be non-existent arises.

    how do self-attachment and so forth arise in such great force? because of beginningless conditioning, the mind tightly holds to 'i, i' even in dreams, and through the power of this conception, self-attachment and so forth occur. this false conception of 'i' arises because of one's lack of knowledge concerning the mode of existence of things. the fact that all objects are empty of inherent existence is obscured and one conceives things to exist inherently; the strong conception of 'i' derives from this. therefore, the conception that phenomena inherently exist is the afflicting ignorance that is the ultimate root of all afflictions.

    Dalai Lama XIV

  • Emptiness Quote #7

    All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome food all contribute to the growing body/mind. And when these basic conditions are absent in childhood, our need for comfort in adulthood can be so profound that it becomes pathological, driving us to seek mothering from anyone who will have us, to use others to fill our emptiness with sex or love, and to risk becoming addicted to a perceived source of comfort.

    Alexandra Katehakis

  • Emptiness Quote #8

    All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

    Sarah Dessen

  • Emptiness Quote #9

    Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.

    Mandy Hale

  • Emptiness Quote #10

    Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

    Theodor W. Adorno

  • Emptiness Quote #11

    An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her growing larger not smaller; she felt as though it would grow so large it would suffocate her just as surely as the sea would have

    Alan Brennert

  • Emptiness Quote #12

    And in the end... Not even that old familiar sensation of emptiness. Just a hint of helplessness, a frustration for a lost time from a result prematurely injured and failed.

    Irina Sopas

  • Emptiness Quote #13

    Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.

    Bryan Reardon

  • Emptiness Quote #14

    At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.

    David James Duncan

  • Emptiness Quote #15

    At the end, we will arrive where we started.

    Aditya Ajmera

  • Emptiness Quote #16

    Attain complete emptiness,
    Hold fast to stillness.

    Understanding the ordinary:
    Mind opens.

    Mind opening leads to compassion,
    Compassion to nobility,
    Nobility to heavenliness,
    Heavenliness to TAO.

    TAO endures.
    Your body dies.

    There is no danger.

    Lao Tzu

  • Emptiness Quote #17

    Attraction is often mistaken to be love.
    If you're in a relationship doesn't necessarily mean you're in love. And what do you do when that ephemeral attraction is long gone?
    What people call break-ups are nothing more but the realization that you didn't love them at the first place...
    Shouldn't you have been more careful before making those empty promises?

    Sanhita Baruah

  • Emptiness Quote #18

    Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

    Daisy Whitney

  • Emptiness Quote #19

    Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

    Bob Dylan

  • Emptiness Quote #20

    Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

    Thomas Pynchon

  • Emptiness Quote #21

    Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment

    Munia Khan

  • Emptiness Quote #22

    Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

    Eric Micha'el Leventhal

  • Emptiness Quote #23

    Bells Ring, Drums Resound

    When a bell is struck it rings, when a drum is beaten it resounds. This is because they are solid outside and empty within. It is because they have nothing inside that they are able to ring and resound.

    What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of true emptiness and ineffable existence.

    True emptiness is like the inner openness of a bell or a drum; ineffable existence is like the sounding of a bell or a drum when struck. If people can keep this true emptiness as their essence, and utilize this ineffable existence as their function, ever serene yet ever responsive, ever responsive yet ever serene, tranquil and unstirring yet sensitive and effective, sensitive and effective yet tranquil and unstirring, empty yet not empty, not empty yet empty, aware and efficient, lively and active, refining everything in the great furnace of Creation, then when the dirt is gone the mirror is clear, when the clouds disperse the moon appears; revealing the indestructible body of reality, they transcend yin and yang and Creation, and merge with the eternity of space.

    Liu Yiming

  • Emptiness Quote #24

    Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)

    Whispering to myself
    With every step I take,
    Trying out names, for I know
    There is something yet to be called …..

    I know it, something up ahead
    Just around the bend
    Or over the rise –
    A bird taking to the sky
    From the edge of a jagged cliff –
    A bird floating outwards
    In silence ……. A silence
    Waiting for a footstep
    To crunch on stones,
    For a voice to fling upward
    Through sharp sunlight
    With a name…… calling
    Before the bird could call
    Before the bird called.

    Oh the bird was there alright
    And sure it took flight
    When it heard me approach
    But it broke my heart
    With a mighty croak!

    So I’m sitting here playing
    With a purple flower
    Slender stem, no leaves
    Purple fizz –

    And it’s quiet again.
    I am still
    I am nothing
    And the hill
    Is a long, long slope
    Down, down, down to the sea
    Far below.

    I could roll
    I could run
    I could scream
    But I am nothing.

    A cool wind blows
    And the light is naked and nameless
    And the rocks are faces of angels
    And the bird in the sky wheels
    And cries to forget the earth
    And its ancient bones –
    Oh, sensual pain –
    Wings…. Wings…. Wings,
    Singing wings.

    If only I could begin
    To describe the emptiness
    Which fills me to the brim
    With new breath

    I might almost lose my name
    And take instead a feather for my soul.

    Jay Woodman

  • Emptiness Quote #25

    But as long as you have some fixed idea or are caught by some habitual way of doing things, you cannot appreciate things in their true sense.

    Shunryu Suzuki

  • Emptiness Quote #26

    But even in his dissatisfaction he could not quiet the feeling that time was like a flash flood, so full, so brimming with things that must be done at once, but running out all the same, leaving an emptiness, a dry ditch in its wake.

    Bess Tefft

  • Emptiness Quote #27

    But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have touched it. But it was inert - if it were to live and find expression and suffer, he must lend it his own body. It was other people's anger. Swine! He clenched his fists, he strode along, but nothing came, the anger remained external to himself.

    JeanPaul Sartre

  • Emptiness Quote #28

    But somewhere in America, between the freeways and the Food-4-Less, between the filling stations and the 5-o-'clock news, behind the blue blinking light coming off the TV, there is a space, an empty space, between us, around us, inside us, that inevitable, desperate, begs to be filled up. And nothing, not shame, not God, not a new microwave, not a wide-screen TV or that new diet with grapefruits, can ever, ever fill it.
    Underneath all that white noise there's a lack.

    Andrea Portes

  • Emptiness Quote #29

    But the stillness and the brightness of the day were as strange as the chaos and tumult of night, with the trees standing there, and the flowers standing there, looking before them, looking up, yet beholding nothing, eyeless, and so terrible.

    Virginia Woolf

  • Emptiness Quote #30

    But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, striving to make a difference when no difference could possibly be made. It was like dipping a stick into the ocean and trying to write something – all the little people of the world spinning out little patterns that lasted no more than a few years, and meant nothing at all.

    Anne Rice

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