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Emptiness Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “The temerity to believe in nothing.”

Ivan Turgenev

Nihilism, Belief, Doubt, Philosophy, Emptiness

2. “In losing his past, he lost everything.”

Ivan Turgenev

Memory, Loss, Past, Identity, Emptiness

3. “What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.”

Ivan Turgenev

Existence, Emptiness, Life, Disillusion, Reality

4. “Like all women who have not succeeded in loving, she wanted something, without herself knowing what. Strictly speaking, she wanted nothing; but it seemed to her that she wanted everything.”

Ivan Turgenev

Desire, Emptiness, Love, Confusion, Longing

5. “So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal...”

Ivan Turgenev

Emptiness, Memory, Life’s Journey, Futility, Reflection

6. “And so my satisfactions had only been brothel satisfactions, which hadn’t been satisfactions at all.”

V.S. Naipaul

Desire, Emptiness, Illusion, Regret, Experience

7. “Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”

Leonard Cohen

Loneliness, Emptiness, Receiving, Isolation, Connection

8. “I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.”

Leonard Cohen

Depression, Anxiety, Life, Struggle, Emptiness

9. “There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine.”

Leonard Cohen

Loss, Emptiness, Absence, Metaphor, Desolation

10. “Life has gone by as if I never lived.”

Anton Chekhov

Existence, Reflection, Regret, Emptiness, Time

11. “He did nothing and knew how to do nothing.”

Anton Chekhov

Idleness, Ignorance, Failure, Life, Emptiness

12. “It is always “Youth, youth,” when there is nothing else to be said.”

Anton Chekhov

Youth, Nostalgia, Time, Reflection, Emptiness

13. “Life’s all done, just as if I never even lived it.”

Anton Chekhov

Life, Regret, Mortality, Reflection, Emptiness

14. “Only echoes answer me.”

Anton Chekhov

Solitude, Emptiness, Longing, Despair, Silence

15. “There was anything else, but not love.”

Anton Chekhov

Love, Absence, Longing, Emptiness, Relationships

16. “There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.”

Anton Chekhov

Society, Materialism, Critique, Bourgeoisie, Emptiness

17. “The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty-stricken man all is void.”

Chanakya

Loneliness, Family, Wisdom, Poverty, Emptiness

18. “God is the celebrity author of the world’s best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.”

Daniel J. Boorstin

God, Celebrity, Belief, Emptiness, Society

19. “Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.”

Sophocles

Thinks, Speech, Mind, Arrogance, Emptiness

20. “Now don’t, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.”

Sophocles

Single-minded, Self-involved, Intelligence, Arrogance, Emptiness

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

Chogyam Trungpa

Impermanence, Emptiness, Awareness, Mindfulness, Perception

22. “I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.”

Alice Walker

Mind, Peace, Emptiness, Awareness, Stillness

23. “Whereas a man, surely, should know about everything; excel in a multitude of activities, introduce you to passion in all its force, to life in all its grace, initiate you into all mysteries! But this one had nothing to teach; knew nothing, wanted nothing.”

Gustave Flaubert

Knowledge, Passion, Life, Learning, Emptiness

24. “The reminiscences, far too numerous, on which he dwelt produced a disheartening effect on him; he went no further with the work, and his mental vacuity redoubled.”

Gustave Flaubert

Memory, Reflection, Disillusionment, Work, Emptiness

25. “Besides, nothing was worth the trouble of seeking it; everything was a lie. Every smile hid a yawn of boredom, every joy a curse, all pleasure satiety, and the sweetest kisses left upon your lips only the unattainable desire for a greater delight.”

Gustave Flaubert

Disillusionment, Pleasure, Desire, Lies, Emptiness