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“We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.”

Ifs Persons Past Fall Space Events Empty Significant Floats Continuity Empty Space Expanse Discontinuity

Book:Open City: A Novel

Source: Open City: A Novel

“The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.”

Firsts Universe Space Principles Empty Atoms Empty Space

Author:Democritus

“He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.”

Humans Space Empty Hatred Empty Space

Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.”

Ifs Loses Space Sun Planets Empty Buddhist Emptiness Empty Space

Author:Gautama Buddha

“They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.”

“Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.”

Mind Home Suffering Space Silence Empty Silence Is Awakened Empty Space

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.”

Source: Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.”

Home Form House Space Doors Design Wall Window Empty Essence Thirty Wheels Spokes Pot Clay Space Between Empty Space Hub Windows And Doors

Author:Laozi

“The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.”

Knows Life Important Enough Language Easy Space Empty Warrior God Love Empty Space Important Words Small Words

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Space Loneliness Empty Cinema Empty Space

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.”

Men I Can Space Walks Stage Needed Empty Theatre Engaged Empty Space

Book:The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

“Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?”

Source: Waterland

“The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.”

Form Space Sun Sky Huge Moon Empty Tiny Horizon Immense Impressed Overwhelmed Empty Space Crescent

Author:Joan Miro

“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Believe Art Ideas Reason Would Be Artist Space Produce Empty Good Ideas Junk Empty Space

Author:Andy Warhol

“You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.”

“I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.”

Believe I Believe Space Wonderful Empty I Believe In Wonderful Things Empty Space

Author:Anselm Kiefer