Matsuo Basho
Poet
"the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being."
Emptiness quotes
Emptiness
205 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Meister Eckhart
Theologian, Philosopher
"To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful."
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"Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you."
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"Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness."
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"Form is emptiness, emptiness is form"
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"Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness."
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"I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?"
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"By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better."
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"Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."
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"How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?"
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"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."
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"Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness"
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"The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged."
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"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers"
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"All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn."
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"Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things."
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"Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness."
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"Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue."
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"It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself."
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"I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft."
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"When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard."
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"His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen."
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