Emptiness Quotes
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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
Saul Bellow -
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Seneca the Younger
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Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
Ray Romano -
As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.
Haruki Murakami -
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
Ravi Zacharias -
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain -
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
Sarah Dessen -
I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.
Meredith Monk
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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.
Merle Shain -
Confidence without skill is just emptiness.
Erik Weihenmayer -
The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.
Thomas Keating -
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Gautama Buddha -
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.
Miriam Toews -
Emptiness is the `knowing of one that frees all.’ Emptiness is the supreme king of medicines. Emptiness is the nectar of immortality. Emptiness is spontaneous accomplishment beyond effort. Emptiness is enlightenment without exertion.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
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To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
Edmond Jabes -
Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
Haruki Murakami -
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
Haruki Murakami -
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
Carson McCullers -
He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
Haruki Murakami