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English poet, illustrator, painter and translator 1828–1882Related quotes
“A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.”
Massimo Introvigne (1955) Italian philosopher
"Filming the Age of Kingdom: The End Times and the Movies of The Church of Almighty God" https://bitterwinter.org/end-times-and-the-movies-of-cag/
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
“No creature loves an empty space;
Their bodies measure out their place.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) English metaphysical poet and politician
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax.
“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
St. 1.
A Psalm of Life (1839)
“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”
Eric Hoffer book The True Believer
Section 75
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
