“nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.”
about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair
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Erik Satie 6
French composer and pianist 1866–1925Related quotes
“Empty pockets never held anyone back…it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.”
"Enthusiasm makes the difference" (2003), p. 58
“All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.”
As quoted on the artist's Twitter Feed, March 16, 2013 https://twitter.com/josephpisaniart/status/312902833747943424
This has similarly been attributed to Buchan, but is actually a misrendering of a sentence from the first paragraph of John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer. Bunyan's original sentence reads: "It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled."
Misattributed
“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.
Voces (1943)
“Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.”
In Your Eyes
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Context: Love I get so lost, sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
When I want to run away,
I drive off in my car.
But whichever way I go,
I come back to the place you are.
Note to the mother of Marcus Chown, who had admired the profile of Feynman presented in the BBC TV Horizon program "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981). Written after Chown asked Feynman to write her a birthday note, hoping it would increase her interest in science.
Photo of note published in No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (1996), by Christopher Sykes, p. 161.
In a " Quantum theory via 40-tonne trucks http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/quantum-theory-via-40tonne-trucks-how-science-writing-became-popular-1866934.html", The Independent (17 January 2010), and in a audio interview on BBC 4 (September 2010), Chown recalled the note as: "Ignore your son's attempts to teach you physics. Physics is not the most important thing, love is."
