Sentence examples for empty existence from inspiring English sources

Confinement destroys their humanity and turns their lives into a miserable and empty existence.

"My post-'Titanic' experience was a very empty existence," he says, tugging at his cap.

The highly charged narrative offsets the sterility of Miss Saito's immaculate home and empty existence.

At the beginning of each episode, a distraught businessman named Miles Peterson stands in a rainstorm lamenting his empty existence.

He is stuck in a seven-year loop, consigned to a solitary and empty existence while everything around him is transformed by time.

The narrator of this first novel, who lives an empty existence in Calcutta, reluctantly records his family's stories -- both real and imagined -- to give his dead sister's baby a past and his own life some measure of coherence.

What is perhaps most interesting about the hollow, empty-jar existence of eighteen are the e-mails that hundreds of individuals — real people with Facebook accounts, and provided phone numbers, and other hallmarks of actual personhood — mistakenly sent to the account when intending to communicate with someone else.

For some, even those momentary events that make up the flow of the world are understood to be empty of inherent existence (the idea of inherent existence is understood differently in different traditions) to the point that what one sees in the enlightenment experience is the ultimate emptiness (sunyata) of all things.

We learn early on that his emotionally empty, doggedly conformist existence is, in his mind, the result of his sudden banishment from the close circle of friends whose collective insularity had once given his life a meaning.

(v.18) This is so because despite the fact that whatever is dependently arisen lacks intrinsic reality, and therefore empty, nonetheless its existence is illusion-like.

The Yogācāra offers good reasons to show that the contents of consciousness are conditioned and therefore are empty of inherent existence, but they fail to appreciate that exactly the same can be said of awareness itself.