Best empty & stills Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.”

Persons Stills Wisdom Fall Evil Darkness Hell Wise Empty Deeds Karma Endless Commit Release Emptiness Sinner Conception No Hope Bad Karma

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.”

World Stills Reality Turns Grows Causes Space Consciousness Rich Greater Aspect Empty Connections Contact Mysterious Encounters Association Inward Unified

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.”

World Stills Lasts Fall Sun This World Sweet Empty Warm Rings Tombs Tiptoes Overcast

Book:The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

Source: The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

“To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.”

Stills Ends Depends Shadow Empty Copies Cheated Morrow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”

Ifs Writing Wells Stills I Can Night Found Dark Plans One Thing Tomorrow Summer Window Empty Paid Dues Golden Midst Lit Stormy Inns Writing Every Day Stormy Nights

Author:Tanith Lee

“I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.”

Stills Black Limits Empty Tiny Pockets Genes Spiders Woven Obsessive Sponges Horde Visibility Leggings Obsessive Compulsive Otaku Wearing Black Empty Pockets

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.”

Stills Feelings Light Might Would Be Space Imagine Air Atheism Easier Empty Positive Atheism Resistance Flight Imagine That Dove Empty Space Cleaving

Book:Kant

Source: Kant

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.”

Needs Stills Humor Jobs Order House Pay Car Normal Clothes Empty Driving Traffic Getting Dressed

Author:Ellen Goodman

“The average person's short-term memory can hold only five to seven bits of data at any one moment. If you put more items in, others fall out. The older you are, the more you have crammed into those memory circuits. Twenty-five-year-olds can remember things because they still have empty space. Some of us take our children to the supermarket in the hope they will remember why we are there.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.”

Men Feels Stills Animal Brain He Man Eating Empty Emptiness Urges Stomach Belly Gratification

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.”

“To be still means to empty yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts and create a state of consciousness that is open and receptive.”

Mean Stills States Consciousness Flow Empty Emptiness Stillness Receptive Incessant States Of Consciousness

Author:John Daido Loori

“Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.”

Men Way Humans Made Stills Helping Christian Form Found Christ Deals Liberty Ought Empty Neighbor Servant Human Form

Book:Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

“And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.”

People Stills Women Leadership Leader Darkness Return Empty Weak Flourishing Propensity

Author:Mary McGrory

“Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?”

Source: Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments

“You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.”

Stills Bigs House Nice Car Empty Driving Vacation Dread Exotic Crippled Big Houses Nice Cars

Author:Rob Bell

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

Writing Wells Stills Night Powerful Spring Empty Feds Deep Thought Inspiring Writing Moveable Feast Refills

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.”

Mind Stills Rooms Position Wall Quiet Sitting Empty Wicked Continuing Pillow Quiet Room

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.”

Ifs World Feels Stills Matter Memories One Thing Acceptance Birth Empty Unconditional Love Denied Unconditional Being Loved Unqualified

Author:Michael Jackson

“What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.”

Children Made Stills Common Paper Empty Planes Seats Empty Seats

Author:Buddy Wakefield

“I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”

“Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.”

Way Needs Giving Wells Stills Hands Jesus Christ Accepting Forever Drink Offers Eternal Empty Died Asking Raises Cups Invitations Eternal Life Risen Meaning Life Fountainhead Empty Hands

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.”

Stills Remember Life Is Sound Memories Talking Sadness Goes On Laughter Empty Good Things Silent Edges Time Goes On Jagged Edge

Book:Looking Back: A Book of Memories

Source: Looking Back: A Book of Memories

“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.”

Ifs Knows Giving Heart Kind Persons Stills Helping Purpose Suffering Chance Compassion Listening Perception Capable Empty Bitterness Compassionate Continuing Deep Listening

Author:Nhat Hanh

“And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.”

Thinking Way Wells Kind May Stills Moving Night Black Dark Talking Break Five Sky Color Six Empty Green Fingers Storm Just One Bottles Rainbow Lettuce Cucumbers Grasshoppers Pitch Black

Author:Toni Morrison

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.”

Thinking Heart Stills Shows Faces Fall Wish Pieces Broken Hundred Empty Glasses Breasts Adore Rags Broken Glass

Book:The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

“How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.”

People Feels Stills Body Eye Dies Three Left Waiting Term Accepting Alive Minutes Walking Empty Safety Intention Killing More Time Say Anything

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.”

Heart Stills Ends Dream Desire Left Grief Wonder Tree Lonely Empty Seasons Winter Storm Naked Leafs Limbs Chill Ruthless Numb Trembling Desolation Garlands Whistling Empty Heart Tree Limbs

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

“Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.”

Knows Doe Stills Hands Today Black Voice Empty Servant Mourning Fists Gloves Empty Hands Aghast

Author:Caroline Stevermer

“Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)”

People Mean Said Stills Lasts House President White Pay Attention Half Drink Empty Thirds Glasses Dinner White House President Bush Liquid Half Empty

Author:Stephen Colbert

“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.”

Ifs Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Faces Night Found Left Voice Rooms Comfort Empty Rings Despite Disturbing Thinking Of Him

Book:Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called “the coolest Osmond.”

Thinking Stills Lines Party Records Mines Republican Empty Independent Democrat Despite Voting Consistent Compliment Senators Mccain

Author:Sarah Vowell

“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.”

Looks Children Stills Body Hands Light Eye Faces Moving Animal Hair Pure Empty Mirrors Glasses Bones Shoulders Cups Hips Pale Cages Skulls Thighs Seventeen Ribs Bruised Rib Cage

Book:The Hanged Man

Source: The Hanged Man

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“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

“English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.”

Stills Empty Rainbow Prisms English Words

Book:Already Dead: A California Gothic

Source: Already Dead: A California Gothic

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”

Way Feels Stills Eye Moving Felt Feminism Middle Empty Chaos Classic Emptiness Being A Woman Numbness Tornadoes Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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

“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.”

Ifs Stills States Light Lasts Three Grows Emotion Morning Saws Reflection Window Empty Weak And Love Breaths Conviction Disappear Peaceful Clock Towers Consent Deep Emotions

Book:The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.”

Ifs Feels Stills Hands Findings Empty Disappointment Foolishness Hopelessness Empty Hands

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.”

Thinking Stills Passion Wish Sides Boys Love You Missing Empty Hot Warm Going Away Bottles Coke Empty Bottles

Book:All Over but the Shoutin'

Source: All Over but the Shoutin'

“Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.”

Said Stills Use Left Water Love Is Sea Ocean Empty Dry Buckets Love Is Like

Book:The Safe-Keeper's Secret

Source: The Safe-Keeper's Secret

“You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.”

Ifs Said Stills Wonder Alive Empty Rose Agony Kill Me Without You

Book:Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

“when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw”

Feels Littles Stills Fall Loses Empty Tongue Holes Teeth Plenty Keep Going Nerves Gum Empty Places

Book:House Rules: A Novel

Source: House Rules: A Novel

“Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'.”

Want Heart Stills Ends Light Might Desire Night Cry My Heart Empty Depth Storm Strikes Core Rings Thee Repeats Rebellion Day And Night Gloom Petitions Unconsciousness

Book:Gitanjali

Source: Gitanjali

“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

“Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.”

Long Stills Book Country Play Would Be Fine Months Summer Empty Library Lakes Fine Things Looking Ahead

Book:Half Magic

Source: Half Magic

“Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)”

Source: Boy in the Water: A Novel

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