Empty Quotes

Life is tough, so fill in the cups.

— Anonymous

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

— Jason Bonham

My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.

— Pablo Neruda

Empty the pond to get the fish.

— Robert Bresson

When the mind is most empty It is most full.

— Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

— Maxine Kumin

An empty canvas is full.

— Robert Rauschenberg

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

— Anonymous

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

— Idries Shah

“Your heart was a wishing well. Bottomless. Trying to love you bankrupted me.”

— John Mark Green

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

— Mike Ditka

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

— Charles Hodge

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

— Craig Johnson

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

— Bruce Lee

I love walking into an empty room and imagining what it could be.

— Gauri Khan

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

— Robert Hugh Benson

After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain…

— Francis Quarles

I remember going to the cinema to watch 'Blade Runner' when I was 14 or 15. It was a huge flop when…

— Toby Stephens

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has…

— Erich Fromm

The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the…

— Frederick Lenz

This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty

— Ravi Shastri

Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.

— Laozi

“There are so many empty people walking around on this little planet. Lonely people. Angry people. Bitter. Forgotten.”

— Jeyn Roberts

He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty…

— Julia Quinn

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still,…

— John Donne

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else…

— Frank McCourt

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,…

— Alexander Pope

“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It was simply this: silence is not a neutral position, whatever your intentions. Silence automatically supports the status quo. When you are…

— Justine Musk

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough.…

— Tom Regan

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of…

— Leo Tolstoy

A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I'm not saying stop doing, stop action; I'm not…

— Rajneesh

What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special…

— Joseph Bernardin

The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating…

— Tana French

I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home…

— Dalai Lama

Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the…

— Stephen Dobyns

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed…

— Vivian Gornick

What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without…

— Isaac Newton

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else…

— Frank McCourt

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge…

— Susan Sontag