Love is not nonsense. It is everything. For without love…

“Strength is an empty shell. One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. Show me a man…

— Jack London

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body…

— Hildegard of Bingen

One day, I want to be able to stand with my head up proud. I want to be able to hear people say how…

— Tiana Webb

“She looks like an empty shell of a woman with her soul hovering above her. We believe in spiritual guías in Santo Domingo. Hers…

— Raquel Cepeda

“I am the soul…but is that true?’ she asked herself aloud. ‘What am I actually? I am not the soul, I am beyond the…

— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley

If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as…

— Sylvia Plath

“Life luscious wet life bereft of death, loss of empty shell minus absent of nothing exploding star cell amoeba sweet algae oxygen, hydrogen flowering…

— H Raven Rose

Donatello this home has become like an empty shell. Each of your brothers have strengths and weaknesses.

— Master Splinter

“And the tide shrinks back into its womb And I hope the empty shells and bones of your stories Will litter and clutter the…

— King Creosote

Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into…

— Peter Rollins

“So when Finn sailed back down the Negro at dawn, he saw no flames and heard no roaring as the house was destroyed. Everything…

— Eva Ibbotson

Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of…

— Frederick Lenz

“The great oak tree had stood on a hill over the Hudson, in a lonely spot on the Taggart estate. Eddie Willers, aged seven,…

— Ayn Rand

Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Without the men, ships are nothing but empty shells of metal. It’s the men who give the ship life, who turn it from a…

— Douglas Mumphrey