Emptiness Quotes - Page 21

• He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and with the substance of nothing. To reduce the world to an equation is to leave it without head or feet.

  Leopoldo Alas

  Life, Feet, Substance

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• He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Angel, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

  Bessie Smith

  Life, Spring, Mean

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• Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Life, Mean, Empty

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• Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, somehing valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly exisiting. All that you are give up is actually a vague identity . You realize thigs is not true; it's noe the ultimate. This how and why to develop renunciation

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Life is an empty dream.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, Empty

  Robert Browning (1850). “Poems”, p.32

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• The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

  Roberto Bolano

  Pain, Memories, Void

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• I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.

  Michael Novak

  Lying, Acceptance, Despair

  Michael Novak (1970). “The Experience of Nothingness”, p.67, Transaction Publishers

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• Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance.

  Ken Wilber

  Ego, Spirit, Certain

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sad, Suicide, Veins

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

  John Donne

  Love, Art, Darkness

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Prayer, Hate

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.185, Book Tree

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• I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

  Juliet Marillier

  Hands, Clutch

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.47, Macmillan

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• I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Loss, Feelings, Teeth

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.116, Penguin

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• All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.

  Wayne Muller

  Blow, Wind, Reeds

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.46, Bantam

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• Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

  Clive Barker

  Eye, Filling Up, Should Have

  Clive Barker (1996). “The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art”

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• The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured.

  Tash

  Years, Pulse, Covering

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• You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.

  Tim Tharp

  Lasts, Rest Of Your Life, Plant

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.83, Scholastic UK

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• What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

  Dogen

  Reality, Fire, Icicles

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• Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a sadness that can not be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him. And in it there is an emptiness that can not be filled except with love for Him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him. And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sadness, Heart, Knowing

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• It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Hurt, Pain, Dark

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God help us to live slowly:
  To move simply:
  To look softly:
  To allow emptiness:
  To let the heart create for us.
  Amen.

  Michael Leunig

  Moving, Heart, Looks

  Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.59, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

  Tina St. John

  Pain, Guilt, Hammers

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• The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Loneliness, Heart

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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• To whom to speak when the other no longer is?
  The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

  Edmond Jabes

  Speak, Empty

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