Emptiness Quotes - Page 8

There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

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.

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.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he added, "One cannot assume we know what they meant...." I agreed.

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

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.

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.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

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.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

all nothing's only our hugest home; the most who die, the more we live

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.