"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."

Emptiness, Freedom, Life, Existence

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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."

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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

Emptiness, Freedom, Life, Existence

"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

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

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Emptiness, Hunger, Soul, Life

"A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Emptiness, Death, Loss, Memory

"BucketI feel so dreamydreamy lazy, crazy sleepylike I want to be therein the doorway, the doorwayor the porch cornerbe sitting, be emptynotdoing not goingan old bucket left therein the porch corner is like I aman old empty bucket somebody left there."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Emptiness, Stillness, Peace, Solitude

". . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . ."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Emptiness, Comfort, Heart, Hope, Emotion

"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."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Emptiness, Life, Movement, Feeling

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

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Emptiness, Wealth, Desire, Longing

"There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Emptiness, Obvious, Conviction, Truth

"No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Emptiness, Truth, Struggle, Reality

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"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."

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"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."

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