Best empty & body Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?”

Source: Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.”

Knows Mind Humans Wells Heart Soul Body Earth Women Known Possibility Kissing Empty Harmony Instruments Silent Flesh Adore Masterpiece Strain Crave Splendid Drains Eloquent

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“My new work deals with emptying my body: 'Boat emptying, stream entering.' This means that you have to empty the body/boat to the point where you can really be connected with the fields of energy around you. I think that men and women in our Western culture are completely disconnected from that energy, and in my new work I want to make this connection possible.”

Thinking Men Want Mean Body Culture Energy Deals Fields Men And Women Empty Connections Western Connected Boat Streams Entering Disconnected Western Culture New Work

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Body Difficult Models Empty Negativity Labeling

Author:Boyd Holbrook

“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.”

World Stories Body Religion Three This World Periods Empty Disappear Core Fifty Heavenly Forty Easter Tombs Exit Angelic Announcements Ascension Time Periods

Book:Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

“Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.”

Mind Humans Body Spirit Human Beings Behinds Ego Empty And Love Buddhist Love Life Hiding Ecstasy Shells Innate Human Body Cosmology Empty Shell

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].”

Should Mind Body Imagination Poor Wonder Praying Creatures Empty Enjoyment Terrified Belly Plight Empty Heads

Author:Laurence Sterne

“The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.”

Giving Made Body Moving Energy Space Information Huge Source Empty Speed Your Body Atoms Void Lightning Particles Empty Space Fluctuation Subatomic Particles

Author:Deepak Chopra

“No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.”

Doe Has Beens Facts Body Christian Jesus Cases Doors Wall Worship News Empty Glasses Glorious Print Thank God Tombs Jerusalem Tabloids Nazareth

Author:Peter Marshall

“Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.”

Ifs Mind Soul Body Empty Belly Loaded Bursting Empty Souls

Author:Saadi

“And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.”

Heart Body Joy Watches Seeing Empty Delight Luxury Relax Accompany Refreshing Banquets Feasting

Author:Pope Gregory I

“I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.”

“You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.”

Feels Mind Sometimes Feelings Body Empty Wake Up Disappear Invisible Shells Empty Shell

Author:Elena Tonra

“In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.”

World Mind Littles Whole Body Bits Space Happened Feet Little Bit Models Empty Whole World Theme Empty Space

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.”

Mind Body Light Sports Clear Sky Ocean Highest Enlightenment Empty Filled Your Body Heat Enlightened Enlightenment And Love

Author:Morihei Ueshiba

“How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.”

People Feels Stills Body Eye Dies Three Left Waiting Term Accepting Alive Minutes Walking Empty Safety Intention Killing More Time Say Anything

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.”

Looks Children Stills Body Hands Light Eye Faces Moving Animal Hair Pure Empty Mirrors Glasses Bones Shoulders Cups Hips Pale Cages Skulls Thighs Seventeen Ribs Bruised Rib Cage

Book:The Hanged Man

Source: The Hanged Man

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”

Ifs Body Felt Grief Tears Needed Empty Cleansing

Book:The Giver Quartet

Source: The Giver Quartet

“Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.”

Body Saws Tree Huge Mass Empty Raised Flesh Broke Landscape Branches Massive Thick Elephants Torn Corpses Giver Snaps Trunks

Book:The Giver

Source: The Giver

“Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.”

“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

“Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.”

Mind Matter Problem Body Names Lost Solitude Empty Method Usual Floating Without You Detached Flavour

Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

“However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?”

Knows Men Book Philosophy Body Action Study Wise Intellectual Empty Essence Medicine Senses Donkey Soma Firewood

Author:Saadi

“I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.”

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell.”

Two Body Hands Eye Faces White Enemy Arms Skills Empty Caught Staring Curse Toms Shells Rolling Seekers Mundane Pupils Riddle Scarlet Wands Vacant Finality Slits Unknowing

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”

World Should Hard Body Fall Doors Feet Empty Edges Nothingness Bangs Falling Down Edge Of The World

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?”

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”

Mean I Can Different Home Body House My Own Sky Lovers Empty Importance Spread Absence Accurate Empty Houses Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath.”

Body Situation Morning Empty Breaths Clean Bladder

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”

“Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.”

Body Age Faces Space Tears Empty Defeat Surface Old Age Fixed Dull Can Not Intangible Pretty Face

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?”

World Needs Body Night Realizing Half Car Bed Clothes Empty Wake Up Naked Toys Every Night Trinkets

Author:K.P. Yohannan

“Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.”

Mind Body Hands Simple Sun Gone Fire Happened Sky Husband Empty Filled West Setting Settings Heat Indifferent Empty Life

Book:The Antelope Wife: A Novel

Source: The Antelope Wife: A Novel

“Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.”

Ideas Body Fighting Water Realizing Son Empty Good Ideas Charging Poseidon Bodies Of Water

Author:Rick Riordan

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”

Ends Feelings Body Taken Like You Empty Scar Swear Feeling Empty

Author:Richard Siken

“Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.”

Soul Body Seems Religion Atheism Concepts Empty Atheist Impression Combination Reproduction Sensory Atheistic Spiritualism Dualism

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.”

World Years Wisdom Body Seems Spiritual Spirituality Space Known Tree Rocks Materials Illusion Hundred Empty Your Body Empty Space Material World

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.”

Ifs Knows Heart Soul God Body Sin Effort Knowledge Wise Humility Pride Authority Empty Finals Boat Destroyed Shed Harbors Garments Susceptible Great Author

Author:Anthony of Padua

“Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.”

Men Love Giving Body Joy Love Is Doors Divine Empty Contentment Temples Divine Love Deities Fullness Without Love

Book:You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple

Source: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Initiation Talks Between Master and Disciple

“Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher, the witness. This is awareness. This is what I call meditation. Once you have known this awareness you are unidentified with your body, with your mind. Now you experience a vastness inside you, in one sense utterly empty and in another sense overflowingly full. Because of its emptiness you will remain calm and quiet. And because of its overflowing fullness you will be creative.”

Knows Mind Body Known Creative Meditation Awareness Quiet Empty Breaths Calm Your Body Witness Emptiness Call Me Be Creative Fullness Vastness Watchers

Author:Rajneesh

“Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.”

Body Action Levels Female Empty Males Bottom Internals Feminine Manhood Masculinity Relaxed Femininity Barren Female Body

Author:George Gilder

“Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.”

Body Pain Lying Clear Empty Leaving Wave Your Body Beach Grieving Tides Palms Vessel

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy.”

“The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.”

Mind Body Water Realizing Moon Empty Calm Warrior Martial Arts Reflecting Brilliance Samurai Way Of The Warrior Empty Mind

Author:Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

“Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.”

Men Mind Country Home Body Literature Nations Return Travel Empty Climate Pockets Customs Traveled Associates New Home Foreign Lands

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.”

Ifs Trying Humans Body Spirit Found Strong Secret Bears Circumstances Survival Capacity Empty Conviction Enormous Stomach Tested Human Body Surviving Unbearable Deprivation Adjusting

Book:Long Walk To Freedom

Source: Long Walk To Freedom

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