Top 100 Quotes About Empty
#1. For we never have naked and empty symbols, except when our ingratitude and wickedness hinder the working of divine beneficence.
John Calvin
#2. And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
Kahlil Gibran
#3. I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service
Richard Harris
#4. just another empty beer can in the trashpile of life
Dennis Morgan
#5. All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
Amy Dickinson
#6. Basically, my vagina was a metaphor for my empty heart and it needed to be filled before I decided that my stomach was also a metaphor and I ate my way through this whole situation.
Britt Hayes
#7. Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh
Flannery O'Connor
#8. The shadows of woman and child lie heavily athwart our own fears and nightmares and the two become translated, in the empty, indifferent place, from the local to the monumental. They are nobodies and thus become everybody.
Simon Schama
#9. Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.
Tim Sandlin
#10. You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.
Nicole Krauss
#11. We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.
E.L. James
#13. When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#14. MY SECRET IDENTITY IS
The room is empty,
And the window is open
Charles Simic
#15. She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again ... but he will always leave her empty
Coco J. Ginger
#16. How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work ... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.
Pope Francis
#17. Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
Hafez
#18. If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty.
Trevanian
#20. The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals fallen from the wreath of her royal lover, the servant or the bride awaiting the master's home-coming in the empty house, are images of the heart turning to God.
Rabindranath Tagore
#21. The room was empty. She was gone. So were her shopping bags. So were the keys to the SUV. So was his Glock. Fury erupted. Goddamn you, Tricks!
Thea Harrison
#22. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#23. My will can control anything that's empty.
Michael Ende
#24. Fine." Patrick muttered without confidence. "Anything is better than waiting around here." "Time for a little family reunion." Johnny remarked. At the agreement, the four trekked the rest of the way down the empty alley. As he passed the final building Patrick peered
Brendan Walsh
#25. Success is a funny thing. You can't really enjoy it when you're empty. Your heart is a bottomless sinkhole that swallows up everything and anything that it ingests and yet nothing can fill it. There's no sense of accomplishment; everything is meaningless.
Christine Brae
#26. Abruptly he started the car and put it in gear and drove away, trying not to look back. And of course he did, and of course the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.
Stephen King
#27. These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.
Pessoa, Fernando
#28. Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.
Krista Ritchie
#29. She was curvaceous and held a near-empty glass of wine that, based on the heavy look in her eyes, was not her first. "Where
Kiera Cass
#30. And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
Pope Gregory I
#31. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#32. I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.
Penelope Lively
#33. THE SKULL GLARED at me out of empty eye sockets.
Ilona Andrews
#34. Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.
Janet Fitch
#35. No one feels your empty stomach, but everyone does your empty brain.
M.F. Moonzajer
#36. Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.
Steven Levitan
#37. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us.
Dwight L. Moody
#38. Making my way out of the bedroom, I found the loft empty, a visceral reminder that it had always been my sister's choice not to know me.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#39. 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
#40. I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.
Jean Dujardin
#41. As a result of our reliance on nutrient-poor processed foods, the majority of Americans are overfed, undernourished, and running on empty.
Shalane Flanagan
#42. Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
George Gilder
#43. More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.
Krista Tippett
#44. Isabel saw the intimacy of the gestures and felt immediately empty, a sensation so physical and so overwhelming that she felt for a moment that she might stop breathing, being empty of air
Alexander McCall Smith
#45. Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
Hunter S. Thompson
#46. And when you're feeling empty, keep me memory, and leave out all the rest, leave out all the rest
Linkin Park
#47. Why did the room packed with married people seem empty? Because there wasn't a single person there.
Various
#48. Neither could speak. It was the day that a silence settled on the pair of them, and they were bound close by it. Will felt, in that moment, too small to face such misery, but she knew that she would have to expand now, with a terrible rush, to fill the empty space.
Katherine Rundell
#49. Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.
Maeve Brennan
#50. The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#51. A darker storm stands over the world. It puts its mouth to our soul and blows to get a tone. We are afraid the storm will blow us empty.
Tomas Transtromer
#52. Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
Petrarch
#53. Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
Helen Keller
#54. Empty hands held high
such a small sacrifice
if not joined with my life, i sing in vain tonight
may the words i say, and the things i do
make my lifesong sing to you
Let my lifesong sing to you ...
Casting Crowns
#55. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches, your Grace. That's my motto.
Melissa McPhail
#56. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig
#57. Amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy.
Atul Gawande
#59. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
Neil Gaiman
#60. Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that could fill it and there never will be.
Etgar Keret
#61. I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.
Janet Evanovich
#62. She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty spaces in her mind.
Brian Herbert
#63. They tell you that space is emptiness, nothingness - the void. They suggest that space, empty space, is something negative. I found out that it's not! Space lives, Scott. Nothingness, emptiness, has a life all its own.
Nicholas Fisk
#64. Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad.
Jen Lancaster
#65. A tingle ran down her back. This was so strange. Him, asking her this. Far more intimate than it should have felt. Because she knew he wanted to know. He didn't ask empty questions or waste words.
Veronica Rossi
#66. 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
#67. I didn't have to look at him to know I'd just lost everything I'd ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul.
Julie Bale
#68. Too much alleged 'fantasy' is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.
Terry Pratchett
#69. I think the thing with fame is that everybody claims they all want your best. They all know what's good for you and you end up ragged, empty and tired. I did. I felt so empty. Everybody tried to grab a piece of me and everybody tried to push me into a corner.
Heather Nova
#70. I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can't bear those empty, staring eyes.
Charles Beaumont
#71. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#72. Better to join a ghost than to be haunted by them. Better no life than an empty one-
Hugh Howey
#73. It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.
Christina Henry
#75. On a more everyday level, our point is simply that when a person feels himself inwardly empty, as is the case with so many modern people, he experiences nature around him also as empty, dried up, dead. The two experiences of emptiness are two sides of the same state of impoverished relation to life.
Rollo May
#76. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.
Emily Giffin
#77. The beacon is empty. There is no light. -Eleazar Wentzel (Weeping Well, Vol. 1)
Angel M.B. Chadwick
#78. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
William B. Irvine
#79. Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on his elbows and watched his father-god brighten the bare wooden planks of her widow's walk.
Josephine Angelini
#81. The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.
Erin Morgenstern
#82. With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman
Huston Smith
#84. I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
Talib Kweli
#85. I'm more preoccupied with furnishing my head than the place where I live. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones.
Yann Martel
#86. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.
Lindsey Leavitt
#87. Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#88. 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.
Morris Chestnut
#89. There was something about being alone in places that were usually filled with people that made them seem particularly empty when it was just you.
Morgan Matson
#90. I was born I came into this world with empty fists. After seventy years I am going away from this world with empty fists.
Mangalam Shiva
#91. This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.
Naomi Alderman
#92. My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.
Heather Wolf
#93. the preferable way to treat one another is with love and kindness; that pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity; and that somehow, as human beings, we are all connected spiritually.
Christopher Moore
#94. Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty room in Jizan and the unusual, lingering scent of roses, and wept in his hands for his Father.
V.S. Carnes
#95. I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.
Robert H. Schuller
#96. You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
Richard Paul Evans
#97. He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.
Samuel Johnson
#98. This is where any sensible person pulls together the remnants of their self-respect, announces that they deserve more, and walks off to find someone who can give them a whole self, not snatched lunchtimes and haunted, empty evenings.
Jojo Moyes
#99. Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off
dancing in the hot air.
Robert Fanney
#100. Then Freddie was transformed into a moth. His old empty body fell forward face first into the water with a splash. Slicked back hair tied in a ponytail floated on the surface of the pool like a dead rodent on the sea as Freddie fluttered up towards a nearby streetlamp.
Stephen Livingston
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