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Emptiness Quotes
Naming the void, one quote at a time.
From spiritual darkness to the cold vastness of space, these quotes examine emptiness as both an inner state of being and an outer condition writers keep returning to.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Silence
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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
- Dodging
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
- Life
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.
- Dark
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Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.
- Illusion
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