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“Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.”

Thinking Mind Seeing Heard Empty Hearing Awake Touching Orange Tasting Make Out

Book:The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today. Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought.”

Wells Might Today Felt Perspective Bird Empty Satisfaction Cruelty Belly

Author:John Flanagan

“Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.”

May Made Feelings Might Social Compassion Poverty Darkness Capable Ethics Empty Endure Harvest Stewardship Intercourse Present Day Reaper

Author:Muriel Barbery

“When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)”

Feelings Hands Remember House Lost Left Saws Written Doors Cry Mouths Empty Leaving Very Good Disappear Ran Pie Rolling Doorways Aprons

Book:Stories and Early Novels

Source: Stories and Early Novels

“I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.”

“For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first.”

Mind Firsts Littles Body Eye Dark Love You Stupid Hair Listening Empty Lays Breathe Stealing Warmth Her Eyes Sigh Love You So Much I Love You So Much

Book:J. D. Robb In Death Collection

Source: J. D. Robb In Death Collection

“Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.”

Said Lost Easy Lines Principles Crosses Empty Tests Who You Are Glasses Headings Macs Easy To Get Dresden Harry Dresden

Book:Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves. Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy.”

Men Kind Made Said Faces Voice Crazy Expression Empty Humble Rational Tone Good Man Seconds Murphy Dresden You Re The Best Karrin Murphy

Author:Jim Butcher

“There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.”

Feels Said Silence Nice Air Movement Broken Bird Empty Surface Seeds Teeth Grass Pool Nasty Blades Trembling Quiver Distaste

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.”

“He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”

Facts Reality Empty Absolutes Certainty Concrete Smallest Fragility Absolute Certainty Plenitude

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had a donkey and a corkscrew. (Aiden) Donkey and a corkscrew? (Leta) I don’t know you well enough to fill you in on those details. (Aiden)”

Knows Wells Self Enough Dream Empty Lays Notes Details Beer Stomach Waking Screwed Up Donkey Note To Self Empty Stomach

Book:Upon The Midnight Clear

Source: Upon The Midnight Clear

“Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.”

Want Heart Stills Ends Light Might Desire Night Cry My Heart Empty Depth Storm Strikes Core Rings Thee Repeats Rebellion Day And Night Gloom Petitions Unconsciousness

Book:Gitanjali

Source: Gitanjali

“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”

Mind Too Much Empty Boxes Chocolate Bedroom Drawers Box Of Chocolates

Book:The Portable Graham Greene

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Life Feelings Needed Empty Emptiness Completeness

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“I didn’t know how much I could love until you were gone. Until your laughter no longer filled my home, your wicked high jinks no longer made me crazy. Until I stood in that damned club and knew, without you by side, my life was as empty as my bed was without you in it. I didn’t know what love was, until I saw my refusal to admit it drown all the sweet innocence in your eyes. I love you.”

Knows Made Home Eye Sides Know How Gone Saws Crazy Love You Sweet Bed Laughter Empty Filled Clubs Innocence Wicked Without You Refusal

Author:Lora Leigh

“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.”

Wells Book Together Certain Community Memories Silence Empty Silent Deeper Noise Intervals Agitation

Book:In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.”

Knows Heart Long Stills Soul Self Lost Memories Chance Brain Gone Forever Empty Recovery Your Soul Shells Sense Of Self No Memory Heart And Brain Remus Lupin Dementors Empty Shell

Author:J. K. Rowling

“God gives where he finds empty hands.”

Giving Hands Empty Empty Hands

Author:Saint Augustine

“That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke rising around the driver’s head. ‘Hey, bus driver,’ I said. ‘Can I smoke?’ ‘May I,’ said the bus driver. ‘I love you,’ I said.”

May Said Lasts Saws Love You Fronts Sitting Empty Clouds Hey Evening Smoke Rising Drivers Bus Downtown Bus Driver

Book:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.”

“People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.”

People Should Enough Helping Together Fall Individual Space Break Empty Height Tied Abyss Rope Empty Space Tolerable Ghastly

Book:Letters to friends, family, and editors

Source: Letters to friends, family, and editors

“In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.”

Would Be Father Left Water Months Needed Empty Glasses Bars Piano Canada Drank Dwarfs

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”

Life Work Love You Empty Vain

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”

Left Space Behinds Empty Filling Left Behind Folds Empty Space Wildness Second Place Filling Up

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it’s too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing’s left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose)”

Turns Evil Left Talking Path Blood Cost Late Empty Dear Holes Too Late Inward Vengeance Seducing Tempting Crawling Treacherous Before It's Too Late

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.”

Long Stills Book Country Play Would Be Fine Months Summer Empty Library Lakes Fine Things Looking Ahead

Book:Half Magic

Source: Half Magic

“This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.”

Faces Song Empty Mere Declaration Song And Dance

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman”

Thinking Mind Mindfulness Empty Errors Slave Tragic Distracted Mundane Pointless Trans Mundane Life

Author:Huston Smith

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”

“He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")”

“I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways”

Way Eye Black Havens Hair Empty Skins Islam Tongue Golden Sunshine Palms Silk Incense Voluptuous Black Eyes Alexandria Curly Hair

Book:In the Eye of the Sun

Source: In the Eye of the Sun

“Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right." - Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw”

Empty Command Great Ones

Author:Erin Hunter

“In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.”

People Way Two Reason Facts Rooms Cases Drink Empty Beer Kitchen No Reason Irresponsible Living Room

Book:What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Source: What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.”

Long Important Book Problem Choices Force Space Plans Prove Empty Remains Library Collections Inherent Arrangements Shelves Vacuums Lodges

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me.”

Long Feelings Wanted Pain Found Realizing Boys Pieces Fit Findings Long Time Empty Sensations Puzzles Puzzle Piece

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Littles Asks Water Break Fire Sea Bird Shadow Rain Empty Rose Mere Can Not Quench Larks Love Rain Sea Birds

Book:The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Duchess of Padua: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.”

Way Song Stars Fields Planets Son Wind Empty Sigh Galaxy Your Son Milky Way

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.”

Enough Nature Land Adventure Empty Filled Details Breathing Filled Up

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Feels Wells Doe Two Reality Emotion Built Empty Assuming Response Ants True Emotions

Author:Joshua Harris

“I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”

Thinking Life Lost Space Empty Empty Space

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.”

Knows Night Felt Doors Dog Cry Tears Bed Sitting Window Lonely Empty Cheeks My Dog Moonlight So Lonely

Author:Wilson Rawls

“I want blood! Two of Aksel’s dogs cornered me near Tondara. They shot me. Those bastards actually shot a hole in my stabilizer the size of Mirala…Aren’t you going to say something? (Syn) Were you hurt? (Nykyrian) No. (Syn) Then why are you having a fit? (Nykyrian) I don’t know, it just felt right. You see why I don’t like being sober? I overreact like an old woman. (He opened his flask, then slammed it down on Nykyrian’s desk.) Figures the damned thing would be empty. (Syn)”

Knows Want Two Would Be Felt Hurt Blood Dog Figures Fit Shots Empty Size Holes Desks Sober Old Woman Cornered Being Sober Flasks

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.”

World Might Night Dies Shapes Empty Desperate Rough Cried Brutal Coffins Empty Life

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”

World Want May Said Country Government Happiness Found Poor Streets Ignorance Taxes My Friends Empty Constitution Rational Jail Prisoner Distress Boast Beggar

Book:Collected Writings

Source: Collected Writings

“Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated”

May Littles Voice Effects Thousand Expectations Empty Silent Appearance Heavy Tension Frightened Indifferent Canvas Stunned Empty Canvas

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)”

Source: Boy in the Water: A Novel

“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”

People Ifs Thinking Helping Past Loses Consequence Empty Weight Cake Throwing Plates Lose Weight Throwing Away

Author:Timothy B. Tyson

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