Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
Sebastian Horsley
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
Sam Shepard
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Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.
Tyson Fury
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
Saint Augustine
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer
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The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.
John Candy
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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.
Evan Osnos
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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
Tom Hooper
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Arthur Erickson
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Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
Ravi Zacharias
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There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
Alonzo Mourning
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Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.
Isabelle Adjani
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To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
Arthur Herzog
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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