Emptiness Quotes

• Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

  James de la Vega

  Space, Feelings, Doe

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• There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hope, World, Empty

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Anxiety, Feelings, Matter

  Vincent van Gogh, Ronald Pickvance (1984). “Van Gogh in Arles”, p.30, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

  Ani DiFranco

  Sadness, Solace, Left

  Song: Bodily, Album: Educated Guess, 2004

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  Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

  Antonio Porchia

  Broken Heart, Wise, Appreciation

  Antonio Porchia (2006). “Voces reunidas”, Pre Textos Ed

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• Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Sky, Bird, Good And Bad

  Chogyam Trungpa (2017). “The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume 10: Work, Sex, Money - Mindfulness in Action - Devotion and Crazy Wisdom - Selected Writings”, p.490, Shambhala Publications

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• Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

  Arthur Erickson

  Criminal Mind, Illusion, Disguise

  "Criminal Minds: Persuasion". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Strong, Pain

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• We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

  M. Scott Peck

  Heart, Mind, Empty

  "The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace".

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• Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

  Nora Roberts

  Empathy, Feelings, Too Much

  Nora Roberts (2002). “Midnight Bayou”, p.120, Penguin

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• Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Using Your Talents, Cybernetics, Symptoms

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

  Adyashanti

  Moving, Eternity, Stills

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• 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.

  Eileen Caddy

  Life, Rooms, Empty

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• Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

  Gautama Buddha

  Form

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• Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Mindfulness, Edges

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• Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

  Bruce Lee

  Order, Ideas, Water

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.2, Tuttle Publishing

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• To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Empty

  "Men Who Have Walked with God". Book by Sheldon Cheney, 1992.

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• What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

  Rumi

  Life, God, Relief

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• I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

  Raymond Chandler

  Stars, Numbness, Space

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.252, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loneliness, Passion, Men

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• Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

  Karl Rahner

  Eerie, Names, Silence

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• Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

  William Faulkner

  Depression, Pain, Numbness

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• The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

  Robert Bly

  Love Is, Horror

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• Nature abhors a vacuum.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Hate, Science

  "Gargantua", Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 544-48, 1922.

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