Calm Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Nothing is what you imagine. Her mind hovered above this simple and alarming thought. The variables were too great, the particularities too distinct, life…

— Elizabeth Strout

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to…

— Albert Einstein

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

“No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it’s only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The aura of his soul. She’d seen them before when she’d guided the dead. But she’d never seen one quite like this, darkness and…

— Eve Silver

“Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze,…

— Cintra Wilson

But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding…

— Kirsten Miller

One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too…

— Virginia Woolf

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

— Saul Bellow