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Quotes about Emptiness

9 quotes about emptiness, from Andrew Carnegie, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Frost and others.

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Susan Sontag
You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
Yasmin Mogahed
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Robert Frost
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie

Most quoted on emptiness

  • Andrew Carnegie1
  • Leo Tolstoy1
  • Robert Frost1
  • Plato1
  • Mike Tyson1
  • David Sedaris1
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Plato
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
David Sedaris
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo Tolstoy

See also

Where emptiness leads

See Emptiness in the graph 
  • Love 546 quotes
  • Wealth 118 quotes
  • Sorrow 19 quotes
  • Respect 109 quotes
  • Hell 13 quotes
  • Despair 23 quotes
  • Vessel 2 quotes
  • Noise 2 quotes
  • Freedom 316 quotes

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