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• Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Regret, Heart, Sadness

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• Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

  Richard Yates

  Real, People, Hopeless

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• Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

  Isak Dinesen

  Voice, Silence, Faithful

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.104, Vintage

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• Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Liars, Boys, Voice

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• She'd lost her fury, somewhere, as they'd talked. She didn't feel it anymore. She wished she did, because she preferred it to the emptiness that had settled in its place.

  Kristin Cashore

  Lost, Fury, Feels

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

  Rick Warren

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Buddhist, Heart, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.137, New World Library

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• A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Simple, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.241, Bantam

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• There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Pain, Heart, Cutting

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.256, Wizards of the Coast

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• Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.

  Karl Rahner

  Spring, Love You, Heart

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• Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Prayer, Children

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397

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• 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

  Running, Opportunity, Giving

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• The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.

  Paul Althaus

  Easter, Jerusalem, Facts

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• There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

  Octavian Paler

  Sad Life, Inability, Wilderness

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• Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

  Gautama Buddha

  Desire, Might, Wonder

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• You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness? Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Names, Long, Gone

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• Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Cheating, Stealing, Empty

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 15 (1862)

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• So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the Kosmos. Let us be careful of how we fill it. The simplest is: Spirit or Emptiness is unqualifiable, but it is not inert and unyielding, for it gives rise to manifestation itself: new forms emerge, and that creativity is ultimate. Emptiness, creativity, holons.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Creativity, Simple

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

  Zhuangzi

  Waiting, Listening, Mind

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• You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

  Angela Carter

  Long, Shadow, Illusion

  Angela Carter (1977). “The Passion of New Eve”, Harcourt

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• People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, People, Entertainment

  "A Calendar of Wisdom". Book by Leo Tolstoy (1910). Translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

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• Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Inherit The Wind, Overzealous, Left

  Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (2016). “Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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• As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

  William Baldwin

  Empty Vessels, Sound, Wit

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• Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

  Marguerite Duras

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Jealous, Sea

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (1998). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1037, Cengage Learning EMEA

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