“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Think of a sad, lonely, arbitrary world, with a single jealous God living in the sky, with no other world anywhere else,… — Matthew Rave Copy Share Image
Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“New eyes awaken. I send Love's name into the world with wings And songs grow up around me like a jungle. Choirs… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Everyone in the Lotus Eaters is so concerned with appearances, but there's an emptiness under the surface that they're trying to ignore.… — Alexandra McGuinness Copy Share Image
“This was very bitter to Gerald, who had never known what boredom was, who had gone from activity to activity, never at… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Desire is insatiable not because the goods of the world are too few, too uniform, or too bland. Desire burns through the… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Something inside of me feels empty. I don't understand. Am I missing something ?One day a switch went off in my brain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not… — James Jones Copy Share Image
The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it,… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I’d been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That's all! And then you… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
You know you sick of lookin', you sick of chasin' I think you know the truth, you just don't wanna face it… — Rachel Copy Share Image
For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“All too often we bemoan our imperfections rather than embrace them as part of the process in which we are brought to… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. It was… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
You are so addicted and you have become so habituated that you cannot allow the cup to be empty even for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is time that we allow the Word of God, not the glamorized lies of Hollywood to become the cornerstone of our… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
“Apathy is passionless living. It is sitting in front of the television night after night and living your life from one moment… — John Piper Copy Share Image
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There… — Umera Ahmed Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when i am alone out there, or even here in my house, it seems almost possible that i might lose myself:… — Thomas F. Monteleone Copy Share Image
Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Are you sometimes scared, or happy, just like that, out of the blue, apropos of nothing? You hurry out on some stupid… — Max Frei Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
