Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr.… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left.… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“What’s also missing is a sense of relationship. People suffer in isolation from one another. In a world without purpose, without meaningful… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all… — William Todd Schultz 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
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“People think loneliness is absence. It isn't. It's a filling up, a rising, spilling tide that crashes into every gully and chasm… — Sheila Turner Johnston Copy Share Image
“The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man. Since the monkeys,… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your arms ache to hold someone -- you move in slow motion from one hug to the next so you won't jostle… — Sarah Tregay Copy Share Image
“You’ll still need leaders, and stimulus, and a world symbol.” (That’s the basic emptiness in us today: we haven’t found a symbol.… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to… — Hubertus Strughold Copy Share Image
“...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood… — Michelle Latiolais Copy Share Image
She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.” He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“The feeling of emptiness is usually a sign that we have put our trust in something that can’t sustain us. It reminds… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Rejoice, Micayon. Yours is a prophet’s dream. The Great Nostalgia has made your world too small, and made you a stranger in… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
“The Poem About Taking out the Trash In the vast emptiness of darkness, Stars are being born and are burning out; Galaxies… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I'm not saying stop doing, stop action; I'm not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Emptiness was an index. It recorded the incomprehensible chronicle of the metropolis, the demographic realities, how money worked, the cobbled-together lifestyles and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
