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“Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick fix, instant gratification, the dreamworld, and escape from all pain and boredom. All of this is part of what addicts believe and what we hope for when we reach for our particular substance.... Addiction begins with the hope that something "out there" can instantly fill up the emptiness inside. Advertising is all about this false hope.”

“I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.”

Feels Would Be Alive Painful Accepted Emptiness Exposed Lit Vitality Ignite Flare Emptiness Inside

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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.”

People Ifs Feels Persons Would Be Faces Joy Capable Horrible Emptiness Premises Gamble Paralysis Happiness Love Miscalculations Emptiness Inside

Author:Vladimir Bartol

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”

Evil Beauty Trust Built Ugly Math Hardest Emptiness Hardest Thing Pretense Pretension True Believer Knowing Who You Are Emptiness Inside

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.”

Feels Bridges Emptiness Emptiness Inside

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.”

Want Use Together Moving House Space Shapes Woods Holes Wheels Emptiness Spokes Pot Clay Hammers Wagons Emptiness Inside

Author:Laozi

“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.”

Together Moving Holes Wheels Spokes Wagons Emptiness Inside

Author:Laozi

“I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.”

Believe Persons Made Lost I Believe Loses Greater Longing Intense Emptiness Fascination Emptiness Inside

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“There is an emptiness inside of me -- a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.”

Way Doe Mother Strong Love You Pure Filled Emptiness Void Unconditional No Love Mother's Love Emptiness Inside

Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

“Valek's thoughts returned to Yelena. An icy finger of loneliness touched the emptiness inside him. She was in Sitia, where she needed to be to learn about her magical powers, but she had taken his heart with her.”

Heart Taken Loneliness Needed Fingers Emptiness Touched Icy Emptiness Inside

Book:The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study

Source: The Study Series Bundle: Poison Study\Assassin Study\Magic Study\Fire Study

“Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.”

Addiction Emptiness Addiction Recovery Addicts In Recovery Emptiness Inside

Author:Jean Kilbourne

“When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.”

Trying Range Emptiness Emptiness Inside

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.”

House Space Woods Taoism Hammers Emptiness Inside

Author:Laozi

“When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.”

Should Trying Humans Awareness Range Emptiness Pot Nothingness Emptiness Inside

Author:Shams Tabrizi