Empty Vessel Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Which is why we say I can't live without you meaning your life gives life to me, who am otherwise an empty vessel, nameless.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

Rand Paul

#4. Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

Eleanor Brown

#5. Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Merle Shain

#6. But I don't have any confidence ."
"Why not ?"
"Because I have no sense of self . I have no personality , no brilliant color . I have nothing to offer . That's always been my problem . I feel like an empty vessel . I have a shape , I guess , as a container but there's nothing inside .

Haruki Murakami

#7. The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

William Shakespeare

#8. The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

John Lyly

#9. And there's no saying what heady potions we won't concoct, what meanings, myths, manias we won't imbibe in order to convince ourselves that reality is not an empty vessel.

Graham Swift

#10. Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

Eleanor Brown

#11. ...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light.

Rumi

#13. It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

Anatol Rapoport

#14. But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.

E.L. James

#15. Does it matter if an empty vessel breaks, hollow hath no hate.

Unkown Author

#16. He said he didn't even exist without you. That he was an empty vessel and that you filled him and owned him until he didn't know where he ended and you began.

Lynetta Halat

#17. An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

Plato

#18. 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

#19. Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

Chris Matthews

#20. Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

Dwight L. Moody

#21. I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.

M.B. Dallocchio

#22. Souls don't bleed. Light and darkness pour through the cracks until the vessel is empty.

Katie St. Claire

#23. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

Anthony Kiedis

#24. It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#25. A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.

Robin Bertram

#26. The last of the three now said his say, as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips.

Charles Dickens

#27. God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

C.S. Lewis

#28. Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear ...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#29. When you empty out the vessel, you also empty out all the crap floating around in there. The additives. The impurities. It sure feels good. It's a whole body, whole-minded enema.

Stephen King

#30. Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

Hannah More

#31. Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive

J.R. Ward

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

Max Lucado

#33. A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

Laozi

#34. Empty the vessel of hope and faith and trust and you can fill it with anything you like. They

Rick Yancey

#35. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

Anne Lamott