Most of our desires tend to reveal their pettiness a few months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds, after they have been fulfilled.

Pursuing happiness comes with being pursued by unhappiness.

Depression often transforms the will to live into the will to leave (the world).

The pleasure we get from having some things or some people is way less than that we got from chasing them.

The challenging thing with trying to fill our emptiness with things such as food, drugs, and alcohol is that our body is a leaky container.

Our emptiness greatly exaggerates the pleasure of an orgasm, and that of being high or tipsy.

Consumerism is based on the illusion that you can fill spiritual or emotional emptiness with physical products.

Emptiness is the absence of some things, not the absence of everything.