“Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.” IfsWorldBelieveLittlesStillsCareFacesJoyActorsSpeakBitsLinesBreakStupidPossibilityLittle BitEmptyHollywoodPerformancesEntertainmentCorruptionInnocentDirtyGesturesRemarksMockBreak ThroughSubversiveTossGood MovieFilms And Movies Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—” WorldWayHeartSoulMomentsLightNightLostDarknessSunPathMy HeartTasteMoonSucceedEmptyFilledShiningBitterRememberedRoutineThroatAshesWearyRestlessWeepingPointlessBrightnessLost SoulsSun ShinesMoon Rise Book:The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition Source: The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition
“It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsLooksMatterFeelingsSoundDoorsStreetsListeningWalkingSittingStandingEmptyFinding YourselfLockedFootstepsSitting DownWalking AwayShuttersEmpty Streets Author:Robert E. Lee
“How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.” WorldWayFeelsMindLooksHeartJoyFallHouseMeditationQuietEmptyRisingEmpty Houses Author:Gautama Buddha
“Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.” WorldMindTwoIdeasDifferentRealityChristianTakenMeditationConceptsEmptyAssumingContemplationEasternWorlds Apart Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline
“The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.” WorldLooksPiecesSeaHugeRootsEmptyBasesSilentWideSnowNakedDesertUnlimitedContinuityHomogeneity Author:Jean Dubuffet
“A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’” MenWorldBelieveChristianAsksChurchTakenDoubtRedEmptyDenyVainCivilizedPeterMaryTemptedLampsWeepingTombsDoubtedMary Magdalene Author:Pope Pius XII
“My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.” KnowsWorldHeartHumanityMessagesEmptyWelfareBrotherhoodIndifferentTruth LoveService To God Author:Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
“Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth.” WorldEarthHeavenLinesViewsSunSkySpecialEmptyBreathsBlueDancingHeatHorizonCrystalsHeaven And EarthSomething SpecialBlue SkyHaze Author:Dave Gorman