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Emptiness Quotes - Page 3

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.361, e-artnow

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

"Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

Ray Bradbury (1973). “When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year”, Alfred A. Knopf

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

Jim Clemmer (1999). “Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success”, p.15, Jim Clemmer

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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

Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library