Emptiness Quotes - Page 31

• You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Loss, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

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• Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

  Thom Jones

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Art, Jobs

  "Fictional character: Gertrude Stein". "Midnight in Paris", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tender Is The Night, Gateways, Strongest

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.361, e-artnow

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• The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful - we have far more control over the choice to sin than we may have over our innate capacity. . . . A sense of falling short or falling down is not only natural but essential to the mortal experience. Still, after all we can do, the Atonement can fill that which is empty, straighten our bent parts, and make strong that which is weak.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Strong, Fall, Choices

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• Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Space, Substance

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• Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

  Simone Weil

  Sin

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

  James Herriot

  Silence, Moors, Found

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Cutting

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• As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves but does not speak … I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have free hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Moving, Hands, Silence

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• Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1303, Discovery House

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• I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fingertips, Said, Humans

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.161, Random House

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• There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mind, Method, Greater

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.104, Tharpa Publications US

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• I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Believe, Dark, Together

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• I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Numbness, Boredom, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.172, Penguin UK

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• We become aware of the void as we fill it.

  Antonio Porchia

  Void, Fill The Void

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Wall, Heart

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.3, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

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• If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for two things, let alone for several things. If the heart is filled with the forms of sensory perceptions, it is rare that it would perceive the meaning of Allah, even if one were to say Allah a thousand times. When the heart is empty of all that is other-than-God, if one uttered Allah only once, one would find such bliss that the tongue could not describe.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Two, Perception

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• The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

  Paul Davies

  Ocean, Islands, Space

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.4, Basic Books

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• It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Country, Race, Filled Up

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• When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Ideas, Brightness, Awakening

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• When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Needs, Married

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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