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summing up Shakespeare in one image

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Famous Writers on 'Emptiness'

1. "I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head."– Vincent Van Gogh

2. "There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts." – Albert Camus

3. "Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself." – Franz Kafka

4. "There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise."- Sarah Dessen

5. "You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost."- J.K. Rowling

6. "Become totally empty

Quiet the restlessness of the mind

Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness."-Laotzu

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

8. "What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty."- Frederick Barthelme

9. "Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended."-Floyd C. Forsberg

10. "The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me." –Kazuo Ishiguro

11. "If there were no emptiness, there would be no life." –Margaret Atwood

12. "There is an emptiness in life that cannot be described, about which one cannot speak. We must pass over it in silence." –Simon Brass

13. "When I am around her, I am quick to laugh and smile. She makes me forget about my loneliness and the emptiness inside of me, just for a little while." –Krystalle Bianca.

14. "She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings." –Paolo Giordano

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Pinterest recommending DA contents:

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TSH Out of Context

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And by procrastinating I mean watching Dead Poets Society for the 100th time

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Hannibal Out of context

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Famous Writers on Memories

1. "Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading"–Kazuo Ishiguro

2. "Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still, you'll find an edge to cut you"– Mark Lawrence.

3. "Memory is the diary we all carry about with us" –Oscar Wilde

4. "What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?" –S.J. Watson.

5. "There are memories that time does not erase. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable"– Cassandra Clare.

6. "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory" –Rita Mae Brown.

7. "Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget"– Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

8. "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist" –Guy de Maupassant.

9. "I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes–Vladimir Nabokov.

10. "Touch has a memory" –John Keats.

11. "Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!" –John Irving.

12. “Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin"― Brian Ruckley.

13. "Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled"― Jonathan Safran Foer.

14. “And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born”― Mohsin Hamid.

15. "Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people"― Jodi Picoult.

16. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory" –Dr. Suess.

18. "Every man's memory is his private literature"–Aldous Huxley.

17. "Memory is the scribe of the soul" –Aristotle.