Emptiness Inside Quotes

• As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Ego, Dawn

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• When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Trying, Emptiness, Awareness

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• He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Able, Void

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• 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

  Trust, Beauty, Math

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Trying, Emptiness, Range

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• If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

  Vladimir Bartol

  People, Joy, Would Be

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• But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ego, Intense, Abyss

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• We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

  Laozi

  Space, House, Taoism

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

  Laozi

  Moving, Together, Wheels

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• We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

  Laozi

  Moving, Space, House

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• Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Emptiness, Feels

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• I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Fascination, Emptiness

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• I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

  Nicole Krauss

  Vitality, Would Be, Alive

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• Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Pain, Believe, Boredom

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• Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Numbness, Emptiness, Bitter

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.426, Random House

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• As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Numbness, Long

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• There is an emptiness inside of me -- a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.

  Hope Edelman

  Mother, Strong, Love You

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Valek's thoughts returned to Yelena. An icy finger of loneliness touched the emptiness inside him. She was in Sitia, where she needed to be to learn about her magical powers, but she had taken his heart with her.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Loneliness, Taken, Heart

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study”, p.411, MIRA

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• Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Addiction, Emptiness, Addicts In Recovery

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