Emptiness Quotes

“Sated, sated is the earth. All is eaten, drunk up, drained. What is it I lack, hunger and thirst for?”

“All phenomena are empty. They are without characteristics. To see this is to see the Buddha.”

“He had the look of a man who had left his soul in bed that morning and walked out of the house in his skin.”

“It is not the ruins. It is the emptiness.”

“The 'bright light of fame' was not there. The 'pot of gold at the end of the rainbow' was not there. It was a complete and total emptiness.”

“My life is a dry, empty husk.”

“To see the empty nature of all things is the highest realization.”

“Only the man who has known the immense emptiness of everything can have the terrifying liberty to do anything.”

“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”

“When you get to the top, there's nothing there.”

“I got a pocket full of promises but all I do is jingle.”

“Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness.”

“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with a gilded crown of leaves, but no sweetness.”

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

“I want something else to get me through this semi-charmed kind of life.”

“Like all people who have nothing to say, they talk all the time.”

“If you have not got a book, a lot of books, seeing you have been a reader, you may feel as if you were waiting for a train in a shed.”

“Empty, I think, is the word that I would use for my life.”

“The nature of the mind is clear light, and it is empty of any inherent existence.”

“Having looked for the musician, I found only the music.”