Empty But Full Quotes

#1. Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

Alysia Reiner

#2. The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. But the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no
I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

David Levithan

#4. Dad loves his father, but he says he has always been the same. Even when his kids were young, Grandpa John was always negative. If Grandma is a glass half full, Grandpa is a totally empty glass with a desert at the bottom of it. Despite

Kaz Campbell

#5. It is the empty pitcher that makes a noise when you knock upon it, but the pitcher which is full of water does not make any sound; it is silent, speechless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#6. The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

Alan Watts

#7. The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca The Elder

#8. I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.

John Buchan

#9. Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.

Robert Kennedy

#10. Porn was something, it was a fill with lessons, full of them..., but for now it's empty so far and what I see I have already saw.

Deyth Banger

#11. Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.

Chris Kuzneski

#12. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.

Louis Zamperini

#13. I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.

Rajneesh

#15. The Headlights lit the path we were traveling down, but only so far. After that, the world was dark and empty, full of possibility and uncertainty ... much like the paths of our own lives.

S.C. Stephens

#16. Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Eileen Caddy

#17. It's weird how I can feel so empty, so scared, but so full at the same time. Like I'm back in my own body. Like no matter what's about to happen, at least it's happening to the real me. The one I can respect." -Amber

Jaye Robin Brown

#18. There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two-thirds full but felt one-third empty.

John Green

#19. In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Charles Dickens

#20. I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."
"They're not empty now.

Louisa May Alcott

#21. Feeling free of full & empty, feeling here but also there,
Neither or but simply both, a universe within, one single stare.

Jay Woodman

#22. Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.' But the reader's plate is full

Agatha Christie

#23. Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand.

Maurice Druon

#24. A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence.

Debasish Mridha

#25. I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#26. The canvas isn't empty. It's full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don't even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it.

Jarod Kintz

#27. Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#28. She was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more ...

Joanne Fluke

#29. When a man grows old his joy
Grows more deep day after day,
His empty heart is full at length
But he has need of all that strength
Because of the increasing Night
That opens her mystery and fright.

William Butler Yeats

#30. I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.

Waylon H. Lewis

#31. If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

Green Day

#32. People talk about grief as emptiness, but it's not empty. It's full. Heavy. Not an absence to fill. A weight to pull. Your skin caught on hooks chained to rough boulders made of all the futures you thought you'd have.

Elan Mastai

#33. True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.

Sri Chinmoy

#34. I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

William Shakespeare

#35. One thinks of lard as a kind of pure high saturated fat but it is only 41 % saturated, while it is mostly (47 %) MUFA, predominantly oleic acid, the main fat in olive oil. So it is a question of whether you think that lard is half full of SFA or half empty.

Richard David Feinman

#36. My heart is empty.
But my brain -
my brain is full.
It races with thoughts
of what could have been.

Samantha Schutz

#37. Her head full of clouds, but not in the dreamy sense. Just the empty one.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#38. I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. Her eyes were full of hate. Full. And... at the same time, empty. Soulless. Like those horrible creatures she keeps around her. The dragon was frightening... but Maleficent, she was bone-chilling.

Liz Braswell

#40. Delta is full of guys who can stay awake for a week and walk a hundred miles and shoot the balls off a tsetse fly, but it's relatively empty of guys who can do all that and then tell you the difference between a Shiite and a trip to the latrine.

Lee Child

#41. At that moment there were two feelings inside Celeste's tiny, rapidly beating heart that made her feel as full, and as empty, as a gourd. The sheer beauty of this moment was perfect and sublime. But she was alone.

Henry Cole

#42. He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.

Charles Frazier

#43. Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.

Franny Billingsley

#44. As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.

William Law

#45. When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

Max Lucado

#46. Begin with loss and see
how the world contradicts you,
how the horizon implies that beyond it
the water is not empty
but full of ships
all docking at another island.

Lynn Emanuel

#47. The lounge is empty of bodies but full of debris: wineglasses, ashtrays, food wrappers, and a pair of silk boxer shorts over the Boer War rifle

David Mitchell

#48. California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

D.H. Lawrence

#49. A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

Wes Fesler

#50. That's why we have that 'JUDGEMENT BOX' by the door. You'll find it at each event. It's visibly empty, but emotionally full. If we leave our judgement at the door, we're less likely to be shocked by someone's actions or words," Charlee explained.

Jill Hannah Anderson

#51. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.

Chris Byrd

#52. You want to know what it made me feel?' My response is sharper than I want it to be but I can't rein it in. 'Empty. Like the world is full of lonely people who don't know what the fuck they're doing with their lives.

Kristen Callihan

#53. I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#54. None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.

Matthew Henry

#55. Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

Zhuangzi

#56. No, I don't love Max anymore. But I don't want to give you this broken, empty me. I want you to have me when I'm full, when I can give something back to you. I don't have much to give right now.

Stephanie Perkins

#57. Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

T. B. Joshua