But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the emptiness inside her… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however,… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people wake up each day to face or hide from emptiness. Emptiness in a job, relationship, pursuit and… — Trinity Chasara Copy Share Image
If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The emptiness I speak about is not the emptiness the mind imagines. It is not blank. Your body can continue expressing in… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize… — Mirtha Michelle Copy Share Image
“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… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you can't go beyond the hole created by any loss, then the hole becomes a canyon. You can see the other… — Michael Travis Copy Share Image
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“The moment we feel smothered by an unbearable emptiness in our lives, let us give way to the burning urge to 'suspend… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
“Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be?… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound, we… — Georg Büchner Copy Share Image
“It is a gray and a lonely place in which we live, all of us, swinging between desperation and emptiness, and all… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“When there was nothing left inside, he laid his head down on the carpet and stared at the wooden railing. He was… — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“those of little merit would not even have doubts about this doctrine of emptiness. even suspicion that objects are empty wrecks the… — aryadeva Copy Share Image
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Sam's Place had never felt so empty. He suspected the emptiness was not in the old Quonset hut; it was in him.… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image