It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either… — Marshall Savage Copy Share Image
I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
