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Emptiness Quotes
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
Women
,
Men
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Effort
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Know
,
Need
,
Own
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
Person
,
Hearts
,
Listen
,
Only
,
Minds
,
Her
The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.
Ma Yansong
Spiritual
,
Lie
,
Humanity
,
Loss
,
Values
The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
Sam Shepard
Success
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Funny
,
Behind
,
Success Is
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
Philippe Petit
Journey
,
Famous
,
Never
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Artist
,
Fame
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
Life
,
Look
,
My Life
,
Old
,
Empty
,
Rage
There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
Alonzo Mourning
Disappointment
,
Feel
,
Career
,
Just
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Edvard Munch
Memories
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Simplicity
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Picture
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Eye
,
See
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
Myself
,
God
,
Fear
,
Day
,
Me
,
You
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.
Italo Calvino
Love
,
Good
,
Loved
,
Country
,
Boredom
I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.
Marilynne Robinson
Me
,
Mountains
,
Strong
,
Think
,
Growing Up
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
Sebastian Horsley
Pain
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Live
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Place
,
Know
,
Suffer
,
How
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.
James Marsh
You
,
Film
,
Empty
,
More
,
Finish
,
Anything
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Tom Hooper
Silence
,
Think
,
You
,
Nothingness
,
About
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
Rollo May
Colleagues
,
People
,
Problem
,
Practice
While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.
Rollo May
People
,
Laugh
,
Promise
,
Boredom
,
Now
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
Jeff Bridges
Day
,
You
,
Achieve
,
Try
,
Go
,
Nothing
If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.
Debbie Ford
Love
,
Spiritual
,
Suffering
,
You
,
Feel
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
Emile Durkheim
Nature
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Change
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Long
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Name
,
Without
After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.
Kim Yuna
Love
,
Heart
,
Best
,
Time
,
I Am
,
Me
When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.
Andrew Yang
Good
,
Feel
,
Growing Up
,
Feeling
,
Trying
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
Face
,
World
,
Back
,
Burden
,
Ground
,
He
The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.
John Candy
Father
,
Heart
,
Great
,
Loss
,
Left
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
Death
,
You
,
Feeling
,
Personal
,
Everyone
Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can draw, in which you can work out what the section through it would be. The space he creates is not emptiness; it is filled with 'solid' atmosphere.
Henry Moore
Work
,
Space
,
You
,
Create
,
Air
,
Canvas
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
Sharon Salzberg
Life
,
Experience
,
Look
,
View
,
True
,
Find
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