Emptiness Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer Download Open image ““I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything.”” — Jonathan Safran Foer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emptiness Longing Nostalgia
“And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.” — Valerie Martin Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.” — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say,… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“I didn’t want this. But that meant, as far as I could tell, I didn’t want anything. And not wanting anything anymore was the… — Lily Seabrooke Copy Share Image
“I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Longing did not even begin to describe the dark, blissful, almost painful feeling that rose within me. It was as if I was truly… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
“I see his longing and frustration. “It hurts too much.” His face contorts. “Everything we won’t have.” — Angela Morrison Copy Share Image
“Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a longing for nothing at all.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
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
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
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
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I got this emptiness inside that got me fighting for approval because I missed out on my daddy saying, Way to Go. — Lecrae Copy Share Image
“As we see it, space is possible only when the primordial Being swallows emptiness. Space is born when the Being accepts emptiness, the Nonbeing,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness. — Gangaji Copy Share Image
