Empty Quotes · Page 25

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

— Jerry Springer

Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

— Adyashanti

Some people write to remember, some people write to forget.

— Needa Muy

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

— Pedro Almodovar

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

— Robert Bridges

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

— Epicurus

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

— Lewis Hyde

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

— Harry Mulisch

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

— Franz Kafka

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.

— John Bunyan

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

— Anonymous

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

— Joey Comeau

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

— Rumi

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old…

— William Cowper

“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus…

— Marianne Williamson

A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained…

— Lillian B. Rubin

Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients;…

— Mehmet Oz

One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own…

— Betty Friedan

In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously…

— Taner Edis

At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had…

— Luke Scott

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and…

— William Butler Yeats

She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and…

— Anne Sexton

When writing I just go with the song. I go with the song and try to tell the story. So the story…

— Don McLean

I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely…

— Arthur Symons

There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the…

— David F. Wells

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one…

— William Faulkner

Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when…

— Rajneesh

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written,

— Thomas Traherne

Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.

— Maria Bamford

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

— Bill Cosby

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

— Hermann Hesse

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

I did feel that a part of my work was to empty myself out and let it move through me.

— Michael C. Hall

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

— Alan Watts

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

— Dwight L. Moody