"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

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"I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

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"Widow. The word consumes itself."

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

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"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

Health

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

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"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."

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"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Emptiness, Wealth, Desire, Longing

"Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?"

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Emptiness, Truth, Life, Meaning, Word

"I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Emptiness, Mind, Soul, Existence

"Be empty, and you will be full."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

Emptiness, Wisdom, Paradox

"If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I 'poured' the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too 'poor' to be able to 'pour' back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Emptiness, Truth, Faith, Life, Wisdom

"Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Emptiness, Darkness, Silence, Identity

"As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Emptiness, Freedom, Nothing, Truth

"Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Emptiness, Hunger, Soul, Life

"Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself."

Ilchi Lee, South Korean Author

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"Widow. The word consumes itself."

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."

"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

"Is there no way out of the mind?"

"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."

"The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things."

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"A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom."

"I hated the gnawing longing that accompanied having everything."

"I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something."

"Be empty, and you will be full."

"If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I 'poured' the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too 'poor' to be able to 'pour' back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness."

"Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."

"As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs."

"Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty."

"Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself."