Best empty & suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.”

“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.”

Ifs Knows Men World Doe Self Pain Suffering Wish Pleasure Existence Watches Flow Rivers Empty Likes Lasting One Man Dislike Void Stable Another Man Accord True Peace Likes And Dislikes

Author:Ajahn Chah

“Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.”

Remember Suffering House Peace Imagination Empty Remains Thieves Empty Houses

Book:The Truth Is

Source: The Truth Is

“Loss of meaning is often part of the suffering that comes with physical loss, but it can also happen to people who have gained everything the world has to offer - who have made it in the eyes of the world - and suddenly find that their success or possessions are empty and unfulfilling.”

People World Made Happens Eye Suffering Loss Offers Empty Possession Made It

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.”

Humans Suffering Offers Empty Philosopher Vain Therapy Human Suffering

Author:Epicurus

“The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.”

Looks Hard Earth Pain Joy Suffering Hard Work Empty Disappointment Seeds Emptiness Harvest Crops Sowing Sowing Seeds Suffering Pain

Book:A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

“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

“There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . . Your devoted child in J.C. M. Teresa”

“I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?”

Believe Kind Suffering I Believe Understanding Church Empty Fortune I Believe In Abandon Followers Attributes Foolishness Good Fortune Love And Trust

Author:John Connolly

“Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.”

Made Dream Night Suffering Habit Empty Selfish Wounds Reform Boredom Each Day Mask Bitterness Tranquility Scabs Vacuous

Author:Cyril Connolly

“An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.”

“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”

Humans Doe Suffering Argument Empty Philosopher Human Suffering

Author:Epicurus

“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.”

Life Form Suffering Half Ignorance Empty Lowest Humiliation Half Full

Book:Silence

Source: Silence

“The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?”

People Want Giving Has Beens Sometimes Pain Suffering Strange Empty Stronger Credit Shoulders Emptiness Paradox Loved Ones

Book:A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series

Source: A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series

“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have struck on this day, has two distinct paths he might travel in his life. He might walk out into the world with a wounded heart, intent on sharing his mad hatred with every person he passes; or, he might start out anew with an empty heart, and he should take care to fill it up with only proud things from then on, so as to nourish his desolate mind-set and cultivate something positive or new.”

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.”

World Would Be Suffering Dies Evil Justice Compassion Struggle Air Empty Reasonable Compassionate Echoes Unheard

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“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

“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 humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.”

“The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.”

Ifs Heart Doe Desire Suffering Dies Next Strong Grows Loses Tree Empty Affection Branches Emptiness Divided Vitality Cedars Empty Places

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.”

Mind Home Suffering Space Silence Empty Silence Is Awakened Empty Space

Author:Gautama Buddha

“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.”

Heart Kind Persons Helping Purpose Suffering Listening Empathy Empty Compassionate Deep Listening

Author:Nhat Hanh

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