Quotes and Sayings About Emptiness

When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Finals #Looks #Emptiness

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Prayer #Mindfulness #Emptiness

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.
-- Adyashanti

#Moving #Emptiness #Eternity

I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
-- Alexander Pope

#Ambition #People #Emptiness

But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Past #Yesterday #Emptiness

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
-- Alonzo Mourning

#Disappointment #Careers #Emptiness

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
-- Amy Lowell

#Rooms #Emptiness #Tick

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going
-- Anish Kapoor

#Feelings #Emptiness

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.
-- Anne Carson

#God #Would Be #Emptiness

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Emptiness #Existentialism #Praying

We become aware of the void as we fill it.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Void #Emptiness

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Emptiness #Illusion #Disguise

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
-- Ayn Rand

#Regret #Emptiness #Moments

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong

#Looks #Emptiness #Rage

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
-- Brother Lawrence

#Teacher #Spirituality #Emptiness

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.
-- Bruce Lee

#Art #Cups #Emptiness

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

#Skills #Emptiness #Forgotten

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
-- Carl Sagan

#Emptiness #Found #Bearable

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.
-- Carole Wilkinson

#Cups #Emptiness

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Preparation #Casting #Emptiness

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
-- China Mieville

#London #Emptiness #Angle

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

#Sky #Bird #Emptiness

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Medicine #Stronger #Emptiness

Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness.
-- Colleen Doran

#People #Needs #Emptiness

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
-- D.T. Suzuki

#Facts #Emptiness #Infinite

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

#Morning #Emptiness #Anticipation

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Echoes #Voice #Emptiness

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
-- Dogen

#Blossoming #Emptiness #Grass

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
-- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#Buddhist #Emptiness #Appearance

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

#Distance #Numbness #Emptiness