Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

Bret Easton Ellis

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea...

Augusten Burroughs

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Douglas Coupland

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

David Whyte

Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.

David Whyte

But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside

Janet Fitch

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Janet Fitch

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked...

Charles Spurgeon

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Kat Morgan

Only within the word love truth enters. Within emptiness you become pregnant with what you are searching for.

Carl Sagan

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Bertrand Russell

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

Alan Dean Foster

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

James Marsh

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

Judit Molnar

We are presenting the emptiness and mourning the Holocaust left behind.

Chris Hadfield

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Michael Jimenez

Emtpy is only empty, because you see it that way. Forget about perceived emptiness and move on with your day.

Betty Williams

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.

Gerhard Schr

seven years of empty promises, of following the wrong policies, or of not seeing things through.

Charles Churchill

So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.

Jim Parrack

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

Charles Spurgeon

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Eileen Caddy

Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

Kim Clijsters

I was feeling very weird out there today in general. I was feeling very empty out there.

Richard Harris

I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service.