Emptier Than Quotes

#1. The usual bad poem in somebody's Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one's teeth.

Randall Jarrell

#2. There are few things emptier than the space where a Christmas tree used to be.

Kate Lord Brown

#3. There was only one thing emptier than having lived without love, and that was having lived without pain.

Jo Nesbo

#4. I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#5. Cathedral Close, when I got to St Leonard's, was emptier than a Sally Army collection box at a Pride festival,

J.L. Merrow

#6. When there was nothing left inside, he laid his head down on the carpet and stared at the wooden railing. He was even emptier than before. How was it possible that hollowness could dig so deep?

Jeyn Roberts

#7. Trample! Trample! It is to be trampled on by you that I am here.

Shusaku Endo

#8. You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real?

Paula McLain

#9. I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken glass
and looked at it
to see my dissolved face
a little prettier
I found a steep doorway
and entered
in order to close my exit.
From the poem 'Blue Stanzas

Munia Khan

#10. Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness that is our origin and our destiny. It is the drop of water finding its way back into the ocean from which it came.

Victor Shamas

#11. Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.

Phyllis Diller

#12. If it's easier to be emptier but lighter?

Mariee Sioux

#13. Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Alan Bennett

#14. The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.

Pope Francis

#15. Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy. Having less means hearing "No, you cannot have that," and we loathe being told what we can and cannot do.

Harry Beckwith

#16. Each day will be darker and emptier, because she's no longer in it.

E.L. James

#17. Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#18. I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

Harry Redknapp

#19. But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

John Corey Whaley

#20. The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Andy Warhol

#21. After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams. Thus sleep's labor not only diminishes the power of our thought, but even that of our secrets.

Emil Cioran

#22. There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second

Jeffrey Gitomer

#23. That's how you can tell that you're filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#24. What did you expect? Tsukuru asked himself. A basically empty vessel has become empty once again. Who can you complain to about that? People come to him, discover how empty he is, and leave. What's left is an empty, perhaps even emptier, Tsukuru Tazaki, all alone. Isn't that all there is to it?

Haruki Murakami

#25. If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.

Amy Carmichael

#26. Girls are always like, 'Oh, you're much better-looking in person than in pictures.' I'm kinda like, 'Er, thank you? I think? As in, I'm not as ugly as you thought?'

Kid Rock

#27. The Gypsy Heart tour is a dream come true. Not only because of all the beautiful cities I will get to visit, but all of the beautiful people I will get to meet. Gypsy Heart is not just a tour for me, but a mission to spread love.

Miley Cyrus

#28. Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Stephen Hawking

#29. Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings
always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Dedicating time to care for yourself shows you that you are worth caring for. You are worth working for. You are worth loving, and when you realize this, you are able to give more value, which in turn brings more value into your life. So,

Kate Northrup

#31. The image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.

Jodi Picoult

#32. There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift

#33. No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.

Janice Galloway

#34. The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.

Milan Kundera

#35. Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier?

Friedrich Holderlin