12 Movie Quotes about Emptiness (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 28, 2026

Memorable quotes about emptiness, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow.

Chris Sarandon as Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

2 What is the Nothing? -It's the emptiness that's left. It is like a despair destroying this world.

Gmork in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

3 Who among you still fears death? Who will not face emptiness?

James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

4 The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness. I'm quoting him.

Marlyn Mason as Nikki Bell in Longstreet

5 Amida Buddha, all is vanity and emptiness. All is illusion.

Quote from Ninja vs. Shaolin Guards (1984)

6 The Buddha tells us that in the great infinity beyond all the nothings is the emptiness of the eternal five. Sight, sound, smell.

Quote from 36th Chamber of Shaolin

7 You would fill the emptiness of my heart? -I could never fill all of it, Moses. But I shall not be jealous of a memory.

Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora in The Ten Commandments (1956)

8 Purposeless, emptiness. It's a vacuum, isn't it? It's... What's your vacuum like?

Will Ferrell as Megamind in Megamind (2010)

9 Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed.

Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove in Dr. Strangelove

10 How do you expect to reach emptiness without knowing your own body?

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan The Barbarian in Conan the Barbarian (1982)