#emptiness

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

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

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

#cannot #emptiness #empty #hear #hearts

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis. ↗

— Ray Romano

#am #attitude #big #crisis #emptiness

I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness? ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#fear #nihilism #paranoia #imagination

Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness ↗

— Lao Tzu

#wit