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“The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.”

Knows Seems Beauty Kindness Cutting Alive Empty Bones Desert Untouchables

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”

Funny Sides Dark Half Cutting Empty Lips Glasses Teeth Sarcastic Pessimism Dark Side Cracked Half Empty

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”

“The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water.”

Self Death Water Freedom Cutting Enlightenment Empty Universal Deeds Significance Sole Filling Swallowing Cabbage Cutting Off

Book:Phenomenology of Spirit

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.”

Source: That Hideous Strength

“I like to have a drink or two, but I cut down on that. It was getting a little out of control. Two of the guys in the band don't even drink at all. We just riff off each other man. We're just so, so eye-to-eye with our sense of humour that we can just sit in an empty room and entertain ourselves for hours.”

Men Littles Two Eye Guy Hours Rooms Cutting Humour Drink Band Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Jordan Buckley

“Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.”

Want Giving Made Enough Dream Fall Pieces Cutting Promise Empty Sells Aspiration Ashes Falling Apart Packages Empty Promises

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.”

World Feels Ideas Light Understanding Space Cutting Air Pure Empty Wings Senses Resistance Flight Abandoned Plato Dove Hindrance Empty Space

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.”

Ifs Sometimes Felt Vision Cutting Empty Ache Fullness

Book:Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes