Emptiness Quotes - Page 19

• The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Ideas, Giving

  "SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL".

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• Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

  Brandon Mull

  Real, Trying, Extravagance

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• She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

  Paolo Giordano

  Tired, Tiredness

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• All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

  Vikram Seth

  Love, Sleep, Night

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• We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Acceptance, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Felt

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• I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Morning, Real, Tired

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• Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth of reason, cold machinations, and, ultimately, emptiness. Perhaps the moths knew what he didn't, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Flames, Water, Joy

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• Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Lying, Reality, Sea

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Luxury, Clothes

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• But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt.

  Kirsten Miller

  Morning, Heart, Eye

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• From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

  Larry McMurtry

  Stars, Silence

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.

  David Foster Wallace

  Zero, Space, Felt

  "Several Birds" by David Foster Wallace, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 1994.

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• The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Heart, Solitude

  Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.

  Galen Beckett

  Joy, Mind, Return

  Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.35, Spectra

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• Valek's thoughts returned to Yelena. An icy finger of loneliness touched the emptiness inside him. She was in Sitia, where she needed to be to learn about her magical powers, but she had taken his heart with her.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Loneliness, Taken, Heart

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.411, MIRA

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• The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

  Abbi Glines

  Pain, Used, Holes

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• I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Thinking, Reaching Up, Wind

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• So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.

  Jack Finney

  Holes, Bigs, Enormous

  Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• ‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.

  Umera Ahmed

  Brother, Sky, Differences

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

  Koushun Takami

  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mean, Mad

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• Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Boredom, Despair, Desolation

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• And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Wings, Silence

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• My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in my breast, pressing down my whole being. How can I even stand straight and look out upon the world? I am doubled over into myself and, for all the weight, find only emptiness.

  Katherine Paterson

  Heart, Looks, World

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