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“One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.”

Knows Feels Grows Return One Day Rain Empty Cells Dry Sunlight

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. This is detachment -- when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, but there is really nothing to be afraid of. Remember the instruction: Whatever you come across -- go beyond.”

Ifs Feels May Mean Soul States Moments Remember Empty Casts Instruction Sailing Desirable Detachment Distressing

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.”

Feels I Can Pain Streets Right Now Truth Is Empty

Book:Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

“For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.”

Feels I Can Lying Turns Fall Cities Watches Land Fields Building Empty Clouds Glasses Driving Snow Shade Metals Adulthood Pavement Skylines

Author:Veronica Roth

“I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.”

Feels Sadness Empty Tension Relief

Author:Veronica Roth

“Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.”

Knows Life Feels Firsts Stills Moving Love Is Air Empty Breaths Busy Pauses Leafs Offended Accord Hurricanes Unfeeling Easily Offended

Author:Barry Long

“You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.”

World Feels Waiting Silence Listening Empty Aging Notes Tension

Author:Annie Dillard

“Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.”

Ifs Feels Would Be Certain Security Empty Insecure Convenience Rubbish Misers

Author:Rajneesh

“Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a dream is doomed from the very beginning, because a dream can never become real. Even if sometimes you feel it has become almost real, it never becomes real - a dream by nature is empty. It has no substance in it.”

Ifs Feels Real Sometimes States Dream Desire Consciousness Empty Substance Doomed States Of Consciousness

Author:Rajneesh

“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.”

“America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.”

Source: Billy Graham: The Inspirational Writings

“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”

Ifs Thinking Love Feels Writing Mind Pain Pleasure Personality Empty Mad Contrary Torture Composition

Author:Lord Byron

“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.”

Feels Looks Kind Faces Cities Wonder Gone Sky Land Goes On Safe Empty Soil Territory Mars Siberia

Author:Kim Stanley

“After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.”

Ifs Knows Feels Pain Joy Felt Known Empty Filled

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. Who is she? Then things begin to crystallize. You remember your funeral. Begging and pleading for someone to release you from the darkness. You're not dead. You can't be. Then you feel her presence. Warm, caring, soothing. But somewhere deep inside she feels empty now. She has no reason. No meaning. No soul. But your soul lives. While her's is dying.”

Life Feels Mind Soul Reason Pain Remember Faces Memories Darkness Dying Empty Caring Warm Wide Release Your Soul No Reason Funeral Haunting Begging Soothing Deep Inside Pleading Soul Life

Author:Todd McFarlane

“It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Looks Matter Feelings Sound Doors Streets Listening Walking Sitting Standing Empty Finding Yourself Locked Footsteps Sitting Down Walking Away Shutters Empty Streets

Author:Robert E. Lee

“Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.”

Source: Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians

“How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.”

World Way Feels Mind Looks Heart Joy Fall House Meditation Quiet Empty Rising Empty Houses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.”

Way Feels Joy Judgment Empty Hatred Boat Generosity Load Craving Seekers

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.”

People Thinking Want Feels Humans Wells Facts Stories Reality Faces Order Nations Sides Views Protect Empty Filled Including Ugly Officials Want U Affirmative

Author:Bill Moyers

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”

Feels Feelings Emotion Hell Too Much Empathy Empty Indifference Emptiness

Book:Midnight Bayou

Source: Midnight Bayou