What makes us afraid is our great freedom in the face of the emptiness that has still to be filled.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

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

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

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

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

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

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

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

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

I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.

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.

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness

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

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

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.

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill.

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

Social media has colonized what was once a sacred space occupied by emptiness: the space reserved for thought and creativity.

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