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“I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations.”

“Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it.”

World May Sometimes Facts Feelings Seems Order Rooms Empty Drinking Wander Tea Kitchen Overwhelming Waking Consistently Blanket

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.”

May Waiting Empty

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.”

“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

“All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.”

Want May Persons Whole Pain Cases Son Empty Dull Fragments Johnson Tobias Whole Person Empty Life

Author:Veronica Roth

“Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.”

Giving May Long Sometimes Jesus Waiting Prayer Answers Empty Good Times

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.”

Trying May Doe Would Be Pain Alive Cost Empty Grieving Nonsense Gaps Communion Those We Love

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.”

People Men Love Should May Ideas Ends Sound Talking Divine Fool Empty Missions Productive Vigorous People Talking Astounded Loose Ends

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.”

May Empty Distance Beach Leaving Me Famous Love Eyelids Silhouettes Don't Leave Me

Book:100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

Source: 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor

“An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.”

Mind May Book Soul Reading Wonder Written Capable All Things Empty Emptiness Infant Profitable

Book:Centuries of Meditations

Source: Centuries of Meditations

“This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.”

Wells May Law Order Liberty Revolution Empty Reactions Phrases Menace Law And Order Often Is Jargon Radicalism Soapbox

Author:Frank I. Cobb

“Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.”

Knows Inspirational May Might Happens Lasts Courage Rocks Lows Empowerment Empty Lifetime Things Happen Witness Self Empowerment

Author:Holly Near

“A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.”

Ifs May Reason Facts Science Order Empty Sentiments

Book:Six Characters in Search of an Author

Source: Six Characters in Search of an Author

“When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.”

World Writing May Seems Difficult Simple Talent Empty Publishing Resisting Cathedrals Warehouse Citadels

Author:Alan Garner

“God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.”

May Self Inspiration Faith Speak Loses Enemy Empty Christian Inspirational Abstraction Pagan

Book:From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

Source: From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

“Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I'm getting all these offers for work, I'm very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.”

Knows Years May Facts Next Sides Acting Offers Empty Very Happy Next Year Vacuums Deluded Snowstorms

Author:Christopher Lee

“May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.”

May Hands Empty Saint Deeds Serving Others Empty Hands

Author:Teresa of Avila

“And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive”

May Stills Might Remember Hope Speak Fear Morning Sun Heard Return Empty Silent Our Words Sun Rise Indigestion Sun Set

Book:The Black Unicorn: Poems

Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems

“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”

Men Firsts Looks Kind May Mean Social Crime Empty Machines Slavery Painful Rhythm Confused Mechanism Typical Glances Anguish Gang Social Life Gaiety

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.”

May Long Lasts Left Interesting Company Gone Magic Devil Empty Tables Believer Plates Modernity Spoons Left Alone Supper Gone Away Last Supper

Author:Peter L. Berger

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