a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“There’s something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“My pen lies idle, its ink long since dried up, leaving me with nothing but blank pages and a hollow sense of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people. — Charlie W Shedd Copy Share Image
“Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.” — Gita Mehta Copy Share Image
If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
“To exist is literally amazing—but that same wonder is also burdened with a finite end. There is a self-deception in denying the… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul, I find myself searching the crowds for your face. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face -… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Here it comes again like a tidal wave come crashing down I'm drowning with my heart still pounding but there is no… — Cheilis Feior Copy Share Image
The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“I'm standing in the lake, forming a whirlpool with my arms, letting the force of atonement pull me into its center until… — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
“What happens to the drop of wine That you pour into the sea? Does it remain itself, unchanged? It is as if… — Jacopone Da Todi Copy Share Image
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ... — Octavian Paler Copy Share Image
Always stay positive, cuz the negative will only drag you down and leave emptiness in your soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to figure out how to tell you I was wrong. I can't fill the emptiness inside since you've been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Missing someone feels like hunger. An insatiable emptiness right at the core of yourself.” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“When you know you are going down, dying slowly and taken your whole family with you; that is what really scares me...” — John Zea Copy Share Image
When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and Nothing have the most potential. Remember that, the next time you feel like you're nothing or empty.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Giving a piece of your life daily through employment makes you empty” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point? — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image