Quotes About Empty Shell

#1. A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into your warm, green ocean...

Jeffrey L. Hollman

#2. Life without love, without chasing your dreams, is nothing. It means nothing. It's a sad fucking empty shell, Catherine. It's so easy to drown in darkness, to let it smother you, swallow you whole, to be blinded by it. But you gotta fight. You gotta fucking fight.

Mia Asher

#3. Strength is an empty shell.

Jack London

#4. Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

John Kenneth Galbraith

#5. Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.

Charlotte Eriksson

#6. No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.

Cassandra Giovanni

#7. What can we expect from an empty shell
Where many hearts of pearl once beat to dwell
Waves fail to break hard layer's bond of love
Wailing shore sends memoir to the sky above

Munia Khan

#8. Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

Haruki Murakami

#9. A town without a bookstore is an empty shell of a place.

Ellery Adams

#10. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no ... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just - exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever ... lost.

J.K. Rowling

#11. As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.

Daphne Du Maurier

#12. You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.

Elena Tonra

#13. It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.

David Bergen

#14. Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there is nothing but self-doubt. Have an Identity, for without one, there is nothing but an empty shell. Understand your 'Self,' for if you don't, then who or what are you?

Lionel Suggs

#15. It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#16. I'm empty. I've cried out everything I had in me. I'm an empty shell waiting to be filled with what comes next.
Or I'm just being a total drama queen

Sara Wolf

#17. You have my heart, my soul, my life. I'm an empty shell without you.

Maria V. Snyder

#18. Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

Gene Simmons

#20. If ELF don't exist, I would just be an empty shell

Leeteuk

#21. Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

Mary Balogh

#22. An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind ... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

Haruki Murakami

#23. that town, they had gone under and now just the rotting empty shell remained. Having left all that was his home

Tim Heath

#24. I've never been so empty in my life. You took my soul with you. You took my heart. I'm this empty shell who goes through the motions every day, waiting for you to call me. Waiting until you answer my calls.

Abbi Glines

#25. This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

Jenim Dibie

#26. corner, an empty shell that is merely

Krishna Udayasankar

#27. Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ.

Leeteuk

#28. Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don't need but would buy anyways.

Iveta Cherneva

#29. Life
luscious wet life bereft of
death, loss of empty shell
minus absent of nothing
exploding star cell
amoeba sweet algae
oxygen,
hydrogen flowering
in the vacuum of
space and magnetic motion.

H. Raven Rose

#30. Pearl II [10w]
If the world's your pearl then you're an empty shell.

Beryl Dov

#31. Richard Collins had only taken weeks to destroy the little boy I'd known. He was this shell, okay? This empty shell, and I didn't know how to fix it. And then, Ox. Oh, and then there was you." She

T.J. Klune

#32. He pocketed his watch with a milder look, and began to turn about busily in the empty shell of his own mind. His universe was a brilliantly illuminated circle extending from himself at it's centre to the exact limit of his occupations and interests.

Edith Wharton

#33. No! Such as they will not destroy marriage - they will save it! They restore the vital substance while we preserve the empty shell.

Jesse Lynch Williams

#34. Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

Lionel Shriver

#35. I was just a shell of the person I used to be-hard on the outside and empty on the inside. Those marks were my own personal tombstonr, reminding me every day that I was just as dead as the one I'd murdered.

Tabatha Vargo

#36. Maybe we can hold the windows and doors," Mars said doubtfully. The ruined building was little more than a shell, with no roof and gaping empty rectangles for windows. "But if they charge us ... " "They're charging!" Hel shouted.

Michael Scott

#37. I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

Rosie O'Donnell

#38. Without you, I'd be a shell of a man. A hollowed-out, empty, lifeless carcass. And I know that because I've been there. I lived through it. I lived through losing you due to my own stupidity, and I can never explain to you what that felt like

J. Sterling

#39. Yeah, I'd rather be a flower that only blossoms once before it dies, and then nourishes the ground with its remains - than this empty soul that's stuck in a dead shell.

Michelle Horst

#40. The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.

Richard Stanley

#41. How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman
a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?

Lillian B. Rubin

#42. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Amy Hatvany

#43. As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There

Penelope Wilcock

#44. Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

Stevie Wonder

#45. I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.

Jennifer Niven

#46. The pain has receded but what's left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain.

Audrey Niffenegger

#47. Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

Thrity Umrigar

#48. Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#49. Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Marcel Proust

#50. Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.

Virginia Woolf

#51. Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty.

Nicole Krauss

#52. Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed.

Charlotte Featherstone

#53. You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty.

Nicole Krauss