Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and…

“Madness and passion have always been interchangeable. Throughout the entire western literary tradition. Madness is an abundance of existence. Madness is a way of…

— Patricia Duncker

“She was sitting at a table in a cafe and he had just left. What she has understood, with absolute certainty, was that to…

— Anonymous

“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that…

— David Foster Wallace

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,…

— Paulo Coelho

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like…

— George Martin

“Only the thirsty knows the real taste of water; only the lonely knows the real weight of emptiness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with…

— Pema Chodron

“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place.…

— James Frey

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than…

— Milan Kundera

“those of little merit would not even have doubts about this doctrine of emptiness. even suspicion that objects are empty wrecks the seeds of…

— aryadeva

“ Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might…

— Shusaku Endo

“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact…

— Alan Lightman

Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

— Sun Tzu

Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes