It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.
James RichardsonTags: emptiness
In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
Carl SaganTags: love humanity loneliness space emptiness
But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.
Alice HoffmanAt first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
Fernando PessoaTags: emptiness stoic void pessoa caeiro
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
Sarah DessenTags: loneliness emptiness beautiful-writing
That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.
Vladimir BartolTags: life inspirational truth women freedom religion faith prison universe emptiness slavery talk studies alamut
There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?"
"I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: '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.
Tags: life inspirational truth religion faith emptiness talk studies alamut
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
Thomas PynchonTags: truth reality meaning paranoia emptiness conspiracy-theories trystero
I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
Stanisław LemHe suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
David Foster WallaceTags: emptiness
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