Best empty & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Reality Lying Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Empty Oneself Liberation Delusion Lying Down

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.”

Made Lying Religion Social Church Sin Christianity Tasks Empty Lips Lawyer Cruelty Made It Hypocrisy Sinner Avarice Cloaks Rite Misers Immunity Deference Lip Service

Book:Views and Opinions

Source: Views and Opinions

“The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.”

Lying Faith Empty Unbelief Fruitfulness

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.”

Way Trying Mind Firsts Spirit Lying Song Forget Creative Approach Conscious First Time Empty Guitar One Way Layers Subconscious Conscious Mind Forget Everything Creative Spirit

Author:Edge

“The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.”

Men Made Lying Waiting Sound Conversation Speech Empty Made It Fallen Futility Blight Wait For Me

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!”

Knows Want Kind Soul Matter Dream Faces Form Lying Existence Divine Conscious My Friends Empty Impression Despite Glorious Void Sublime Launching Proclaiming

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.”

Believe Reality Lying Sin Interesting Impossible Adventure Devil Empty Strategy Endless Fulfillment Fallen Boredom Emptiness Adam Employed Shrinks Fascination Adam And Eve Reservoirs

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.”

Lying Culture Fronts Empty Fake Superficial

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.”

Long Used Lying Blood Despair Empty Train West Refuse Stuck Bob Dylan Disgruntled

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.”

Firsts Ends Lying Stars Felt Behinds Heard Laughter Empty Holes Hills Riddle

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.”

Should Mind Facts Lying Growing Amount Periods Empty Warm Horrible Factors Certainty Sand Waking Suspicion Headings Recollection Damp Nocturnal Alleyways

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.”

Want Ideas Hands Wanted Lying Feminism Flower Empty No Idea Classic Being A Woman Peacefulness Daze

Book:Ariel

Source: Ariel

“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”

Needs Humans Doe Soul Lying Song Sound Opinion Air Speech Empty Human Soul Disgrace

Book:Disgrace

Source: Disgrace

“Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.”

Source: Tricks

“Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.”

Lying House Empty Cigarette Reminding

Book:The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

“I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.”

Shows Hands Lying Empty Palms Ceilings

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.”

Want Ideas Hands Bigs Wanted Lying Asks Names Imagine Flower Mouths Empty No Idea Communion Tag Peacefulness Tablets Trinkets Daze

Author:Sylvia Plath

“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.”

Life Philosophy Life Is Lying Courses Tears Fool Gratitude Future Empty Philosopher Foolish Greek Emptiness Foolishness Ancient Greek Greek Philosopher Epicurean

Author:Epicurus

“I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

“She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.”

Lying Suffering Hate White Rooms Calling Mouths Empty Madness Snow Lifts Paris Settlement Wigs Wool Flakes

Author:Anne Sexton

“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

“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 honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.”

Trying Self Spiritual Lying Clear Honor Empty Being There

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.”

Lying Sports Black Power Empty Weak Fingers Athlete Symbols Significance Meaningless Fists Only Time

Author:Jesse Owens

“Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.”

Ifs Would Be Able Christian Lying Force Half Fire Months Ten Six Empty Police Prison Stealing Abortion Commandments Six Months Divorced Ten Commandments Half Empty Police Force

Author:John Hagee

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