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Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”

Philosophy Three Space Comedy Lows Empty Infinite Absurd Pointless Bounty

Book:The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan

“She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”

Ifs Needs Years Long Has Beens Lasts Left Grows Felt Space Gone Impossible Tree Love You Long Time Empty Filled Fence Hollow Empty Space History Of Love

Author:Nicole Krauss

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.”

Humans Home Romance Stars My Own Space Race Romantic Empty Desert Human Race Scare Space Between Empty Space Empty Places

Author:Robert Frost

“The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.”

World Feels Ideas Light Understanding Space Cutting Air Pure Empty Wings Senses Resistance Flight Abandoned Plato Dove Hindrance Empty Space

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”

Ifs Space Huge Perfection Empty Lovely Holes Closest Astronomers Anything Goes

Author:Richard Brautigan

“All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.”

People Way Giving Should Process Space Empty Leaving Unexpected Empty Space Attrition

Author:Charles Bukowski

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

Way Wells Long Opportunity Imagination Space Rooms Known Empty Well Known

Book:Golden

Source: Golden

“I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.”

Mind Felt Space Empty Dumb Empty Space Skater Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning”

Ifs Knows Trying Ends Happens Loss Space Morning Empty Ache November Early Morning Empty Space

Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison

“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?”

Ifs Doe Might Used Courses Space Existence Food Empty Holes Paradox Spheres Quantity Nothingness Empty Space Minus Existence Of God Doughnut

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”

People Love Feels Trying Past Space Walks Deserve Empty Emptiness Gaps Detachment Empty Space Numbness Deserve Love

Author:Jon Krakauer

“The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me”

Stills Wisdom Care Space Sky Empty Blue Don't Care I Don't Care Back Again Blue Sky Come Back To Me

Author:Jack Kerouac

“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

“In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.”

Littles Space Empty Eggs Empty Space

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Two Mother Three Left Space Rooms Four Empty Ears Harder Hot Dancing Being A Mother Time To Think Empty Space

Author:Sharon Creech

“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.”

Universe Energy Space Existence Sea Empty Including Cosmic Vacuums

Author:David Bohm

“She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was the same way that Jace had looked at her at the manor. It was the one thread that bound these two boys that she loved so much, she thought, their one commonality: They both believed in her even when she didn't believe in herself.”

Way Believe Two Space Boys Saws Empty Bounds Crowds Thread Jace Empty Space Commonality

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

Stars Space Empty Emptiness Hollow Detachment Space Between Numbness

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Novel

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”