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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. -- Virginia Woolf
Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness. -- Isabelle Adjani
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. -- Arthur Erickson
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
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. -- T. S. Eliot
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. -- Eric Hoffer
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. -- Merle Shain
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. -- Edvard Munch
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. -- Helen Keller
What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. -- George Martin
From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears -- Shunryu Suzuki
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. -- Robert Bly
Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves. -- Je Tsongkhapa
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. -- Maxwell Maltz
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming. -- Dogen
There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Emptiness comes from filling yourself up with what's meant for others -- Constance Chuks Friday
Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take. -- Ani DiFranco
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness. -- Adyashanti
Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there. -- PureDragonWolf
Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality. -- Brother Lawrence
Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness. -- Deshwal Sachin
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. -- Susanna Kaysen
Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized. -- Masao Abe
There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. -- D.T. Suzuki
Emptiness comes from within due to outer world affects on you. Knowing the emptiness is wisdom, but suffering with emptiness is being stupid. -- Abhinav Rajput
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. -- Rumi
The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises. -- Ken Wilber
Emptiness is everywhere and it can be calculated, which gives us a great opportunity. I know how to control the universe. So tell me, why should I run for a million? -- Grigori Perelman
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control. -- Wayne Muller
Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine. -- Ken Wilber
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. -- Maxwell Maltz
Emptiness is in fact form when we forget the self. There's nothing in the universe *other* than ourself. Nothing to compare, name, or identify. When it's the only thing there is, how can we talk about it? -- Taizan Maezumi
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. -- Maxwell Maltz
When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face. -- Rajneesh
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. -- Benjamin Hoff
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In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve. -- Rajneesh
You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground. -- Tim Tharp
'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible. -- Nhat Hanh
Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here. -- Karl Rahner
Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the form of the ego. It is not necessary to get rid of the ego, but simply to live with it a certain exuberance. -- Ken Wilber
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness. -- Arthur Herzog
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. -- Corrie Ten Boom
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? -- Saint Augustine
There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled. -- Alonzo Mourning
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. -- Eric Hoffer
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore. -- James Marsh
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved. -- Peter Gabriel
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness. -- Aaron Huey
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear. -- Susan Polis Schutz
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness. -- M. Scott Peck
You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going -- Anish Kapoor
Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world. -- Yehuda Berg
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it. -- Marilyn French
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. -- Edwin Markham
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. -- Emile Durkheim
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. -- Blaise Pascal
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. -- Wayne Dyer
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over. -- Sylvia Plath
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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 organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. -- John Desmond Bernal
I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness. -- Michael Hirst
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. -- Kiesza
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. -- Philippe Petit
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters. -- Sharon Salzberg
I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. -- Meredith Monk
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. -- Julian Schnabel
The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet. -- Chris Hadfield
There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean. -- Ravi Shankar
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Absence casts the longest shadow. -- Marty Rubin
Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease. -- Rick Warren
Empty, I echo to the least footfall -- Sylvia Plath
No emptiness in universe, love permeates everything. -- Toba Beta
The void can only be filled with love. -- Marty Rubin
The inner emptiness is the door to God. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy. -- Jeanette Winterson
Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe. -- Sanober Khan
It is the empty seats that listen most raptly. -- James Richardson
At the end, we will arrive where we started. -- Aditya Ajmera
I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Hope is for people who can't see the Truth. -- Jeff Lindsay
It is only God who can fill our void. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Without your pain you are nothing but a spiritual embryo. -- Bryant McGill
She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings. -- Paolo Giordano
We become aware of the void as we fill it. -- Antonio Porchia
When you fill a void, isn't the void still there? -- Marty Rubin
What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty. -- Frederick Barthelme
Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you. -- Marty Rubin
Get comfortable in emptiness, it where you connect with your inner existence. -- Matthew Donnelly
To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness. -- Jennifer Lane
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. -- Dejan Stojanovic
The words are holloew. But that's okay. Most things are, these days. -- Sara Wolf
The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion -- Rixa White
The cold is a lonely person's way to feel alone and death. -- PureDragonWolf
When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life. -- Richard Brostoff
The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs. -- Witold Gombrowicz
Filled with anything? Find an emptiness and let your load flow into it! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot. -- Dag Hammarskjold
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? -- Dejan Stojanovic
Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing. -- Jack London
I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give. -- Jasmine Warga
Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy. -- John Cage
my dear, I have nothing to say.my heart burns like the evening sky. -- Sanober Khan
A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label. -- Ryan Lilly
How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you? -- Ray Bradbury
I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint. -- Kimberly Novosel
Come to God with your emptiness, and He will fill you with His best! -- Alisa Hope Wagner
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. -- Sarah Dessen
The essential thing is learning how not to be absent from one's own life. -- Marty Rubin
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. -- Thomas Pynchon
Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Every soul craves to fill the void. Only God can satisfy and set us free. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When you learn to see the beauty in emptiness, your life will become more abundant. -- Debasish Mridha

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