#Emptiness Quotes

“Live at the empty heart of paradox.I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.”

“I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.”

“All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.”

“"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."”

“The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.”

“Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.”

“Every moment, the sunlightis totally empty and totally full.”

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

“If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.”

“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.”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.”

“The real is empty and the empty real”

“Empty your mind of all thoughts.”

“The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.”

“Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.”

“Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.”

“Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.”

“Shape clay into a vessel;It is the space within that makes it useful.Cut doors and windows for a room;It is the holes which make it useful.Therefore benefit comes from what is there;Usefulness from what is not there.”

“Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.”

“The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.”

“We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.”

“We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.”

“The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.”

“Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.”

“Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.”

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.”

“A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.”

“The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.”

“Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.”

“Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.”

“What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.”

“Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.”

“The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.”

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub,but the empty space between themis the essence of the wheel.Pots are formed from clay,but the empty space within itis the essence of the pot.Walls with windows and doorsform the house,but the empty space within itis the essence of the home.”

“Become totally emptyQuiet the restlessness of the mindOnly then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness”

“What's a victory when its hollow?”

“Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.”

“A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still-- But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.”

“Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.”

“Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.”

“I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.”

“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.”

“As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.”

“Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.”

“Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.”

“When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.”

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

“Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.”

“A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.”