Emptiness Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emptiness Mad Mean
Sometimes when we are empty, we are thinking of something that can fill-up our emptiness. — Jayson B Serrano Copy Share Image
To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful. — Jayni Chase Copy Share Image
So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Properly understanding emptiness means realizing how we must rely on cause and effect.” — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace 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 pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“ Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might… — Shusaku Endo 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 seeds of… — aryadeva Copy Share Image
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place.… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Only the thirsty knows the real taste of water; only the lonely knows the real weight of emptiness!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like… — George Martin Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image