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“empty heads console with empty sound.” Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
“Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Anyone whose goal is something higher must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? . . . No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it...” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it...” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered—and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Then time began to flow again and the emptiness grew larger.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the empty cavern.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“The 70s are very empty When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
“Are we bubbles blown by a baby?” H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau

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