#emptiness

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#create #emptiness #fill #more #rest

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#emotions #emptiness #empty #fathomless #jackson-pearce

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

#being #books #distracted #dodging #elevation

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness. ↗

— Arthur Herzog

#fake #guard #over #stand

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

#emptiness #evil #greatest #hardest #hide

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#began #emptiness #i #inhabiting #nothingness

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark"). ↗

— Miranda July

#love #love

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#falling #honors #peril #puff #world

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

#discover #dominate #effort #emptiness #know

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#career #disappointment #emptiness #feel #filled