Quotes with emptiness

  • 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.
  • I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

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  • Rupert Brooke All the little emptiness of love!
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Edwin Markham 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
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Edward Blishen Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • William Butler Yeats I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong 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
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal 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
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Virginia Woolf 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
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Eric Hoffer 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
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • David Foster Wallace Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Bob Beauprez Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Herzog To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • A. E. Housman We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Anish Kapoor 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
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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