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“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”

Source: Killosophy

“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”

Lost Virtue Dignity Empty Vices Grants Boast

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton

“Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.”

Form Lost Memories Known Sea Sorrow Ocean Empty Wide Awake Fog Exile Dove Sensory Deprivation Coma Wide Awake Sensory Deprivation

Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.”

Life Art Pain Joy Lost Tears Flower Labor Empty Eternity Breaths Court Ease Streams Shade Fades Tides Worms Fleeting Undone Puff Vapor Short Lived

Author:Alexander Brome

“Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.”

Feels Fighting Lost Hours Months Empty Gym

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.”

“It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.”

“What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.”

People Knows Needs Lost Skills Direct Empty Paint Lists Variety Chairs Apartment Clue Doing You Maestro

Author:Tony Gilroy

“May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.”

Ifs Giving Heart May Long Soul Enough Hands Found Lost Causes Empty Your Soul

Author:Rod McKuen

“It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.”

Life Soul Light Lost Stars Millions Pieces Empty Filled My Soul Across The Universe

Book:Across the Universe

Source: Across the Universe

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.”

Found Lost Mystery Empty Shore Arcadia

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he is still so familiar. I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.”

People Ifs Feels Stills I Can Sometimes Matter Reason Eye Lost Felt Space Alive Imagine Empty Glasses Stranger Familiar Noses Touched Agony Her Eyes Limbs Foreheads I Love Him Empty Space

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just”

Littles Said Names Lost Poor Wise Creatures Empty Fishes Hungry Nasty

Book:The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“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)”

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Book:Stories and Early Novels

Source: Stories and Early Novels

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.”

“I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.”

Way Long Dies House Lost Company Sun Shadow Empty My Way Why Not Afternoon Sunlight Moonlight Candlelight

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”

People World Believe Ideas Matter Reason Seems Care Lost Possibility Huge Empty Starting Size Manageable Getting Lost

Book:The Orchid Thief

Source: The Orchid Thief

“Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.”

World Made Names Lost My Own Rooms Poverty Air Streets Objects Moon Empty Filled Aliens Fallen Sand Autumn Rough Abandoned Ashes Sonnet Tunnels Mute I Loved You Warehouse Plentiful

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.”

Ends Done Light Eye Night House Lost Stars Dark Cities Steps Morning Streets Sweet Wind Mouths Stones Empty Breaths Breathe Awakening Hills Dawn Gray Warmth Breeze Empty Streets Trill

Author:Cesare Pavese

“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found. I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed.”

People Said Running Earth Found Lost Sleep Perfect Alive Blood Building Red Empty Longing Disappear Covered Far Away Better Life Getting Lost

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.”

War Night Lost Causes Hours Empty Boredom Day And Night Lost Cause

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.”

Giving Mind Lost Black Memories Darkness Color Periods Comfortable Empty Terror Dues Holes

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.”

Humans Looks Time Suffering Lost Left Creative Empty Filled Possession Human Life Enjoyment Endeavor Disturbing Life Time Irrevocable Precious Gifts Lost Time Time Left

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“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

“God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—”

Source: The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition

“When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.”

Self Lasts Lost Empty England Inns

Book:Essays

Source: Essays