40 Emptiness Quotes for You to Enjoy

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller

Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. Wayne Dyer

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It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear. Susan Polis Schutz

Life Depression Fear Difficult Enough Complete Those Hopelessness Never True Emptiness Often Experienced Who Lucky Imagine

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. Edvard Munch

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Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness. Ravi Zacharias

Single Television Has-Been Emptiness Greatest Been

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill. Vernon Howard

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I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. Sheryl Sandberg

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To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness. Arthur Herzog

Guard Over Emptiness Fake Stand

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability. Gayle Forman

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It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. Julian Schnabel

Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness. Tyson Fury

Time Darkness Word Every Every Time Find Emptiness Lord Stray Away

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

Life Old My Life Rage Lyrics Seem Look Emptiness Empty Full

Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on. Bob Beauprez

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It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness. Clifford D. Simak

Dark Light Single Nothing Neither Feature Had He Knew Emptiness Without Nor Matrix Where Happened Place Utter Here

When you are a footballer, you eat, sleep, and breathe football. If I have a bad training session, I can go home and do whatever I want, but you still feel an emptiness. Divock Origi

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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. Emile Durkheim

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Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments. Evan Osnos

Dark Recite Adjustment Deliver Delivered Over Days Emptiness Bureaucrats Often Arts Chinese Centuries Extent Speeches

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. George Martin

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