Quotes About Filling Emptiness

#1. You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

Sarah Kay

#2. As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50.
Think of it as only 1 year older than 59
Go ahead, as it's your birthday
Delusion, today, is just fine

John Walter Bratton

#4. As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

Robbie Keane

#5. We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

John C. Maxwell

#6. I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

Paul Scholes

#7. I can't feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers
"Please."
He says "Please don't shoot me for this."
And he kisses me.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for when I need it.

Sarah Pinborough

#9. I was petrified of what he made me feel. After having no one for so long, the possibility of filling the emptiness was almost unimaginable.

Helena Hunting

#10. [T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling it with anything that might put some too-useful dent in its open, airy emptiness.

Rachel Kushner

#11. All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness ... I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.

Blake Charlton

#12. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

Anne D. LeClaire

#13. You can't just heely away from your problems forever

Barack Obama

#14. Long dormant feelings poured through my dried-up limbs and wound through me, slowly filling the emptiness. Like an irrigated field, I felt myself blossom and grow with new vigor. He was the sun, and the tenderness he showed me was life-giving water.

Colleen Houck

#15. I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.

Beth Orton

#16. O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity.

Herbert C. Brown

#17. He showed me how enormous the emptiness was by filling it.

Rick Yancey

#18. I open my eyes and sit straight up , gasping, filling my lungs. I'm happy no one's here to see me, because I'm sputtering and splashing and coughing up water. There's no rush of having survived, only emptiness, and lungs that need air, and wet sticking hair to my face

Jennifer Niven

#19. Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/
I was me but now he's gone/

Metallica

#20. Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.

Thom Jones

#21. The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

Molly Friedenfeld

#22. Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.

Clive Barker

#23. Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness.

Colleen Doran