Best 483 quotes in «emptiness quotes» category

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

I wanted to make pictures that contradicted themselves. I wanted to put one picture on top of another so that there were times when both pictures disappear and other times when they were both manifest. That vibration is basically what the work was about for me - that space in the middle where there is no picture, rather an emptiness, an oblivion.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.

Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault.

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Life is an empty dream.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence... Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions? Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

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 had settled in its place.

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

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 gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

Teamwork - everything is one. You can connect with the emptiness of all things. All things are empty.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.