Emptiness Quotes
634 quotes by 477 authors
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
— Saint Augustine
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
— Robert Bly
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.
— Jeff Bridges
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It pleases the Father that all fullness should be in Christ; therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.
— William Gadsby
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The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he…
— Zhuangzi
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One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being,…
— Norman Mailer
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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
— Bertrand Russell
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And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what…
— Khalil Gibran
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A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
— Karl Kraus
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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
— Leo Buscaglia
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have…
— Thomas Traherne
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Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
— Edward Blishen
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Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this…
— Simone Weil
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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
— Eileen Caddy
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Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
— Louis L'Amour
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