Quotes about Emptiness
Humans are always most lonely.
— Frank Herbert
The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.
— Frank Herbert
There're a lot of things you don't understand. Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it
— Madeleine L'Engle
Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.
— Brother Lawrence
And there they were, empty, ignorant, helpless, glad, and joyful, but deeply humbled.
— Andrew Murray
Bring back all who are discouraged, because they cannot find aught to bring Thee in prayer. O give them to understand that they have only to come with their emptiness to Him who has all to give, and delights to do it. Not, what they have to bring the Father, but what the Father waits to give them, be their one thought.
— Andrew Murray
ABYSM (ABY'SM) n.s.[abysme, old Fr. now written contractedly abîme.]A gulf; the same with abyss. My good stars, that were my former guides,Have empty left their orbs, and shot their firesInto the abysm of hell.Shakespeare'sAntony and Cleopatra.
— Samuel Johnson
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
— John Updike
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
— Watchman Nee
I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.
— Edith Wharton
They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars.
— Edith Wharton