Emptiness Quotes

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

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

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

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.

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

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.

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.