Empty Quotes

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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. — Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. — Victor Hugo
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all… — Philip Pullman
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving… — Ernest Hemingway
There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual… — Brian Kolodiejchuk
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar… — Norman Douglas
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings… — Eudora Welty
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you canâ€™t… — Frank McCourt
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is… — Hunter S. Thompson
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a… — Nicole Krauss
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between starsâ€”on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home… — Robert Frost
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits… — Toni Morrison
Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge — Dan Millman
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love. — Ernest Hemingway
You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the… — Neil Gaiman
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and… — Audre Lorde
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations… — Scott Westerfeld
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters… — Michael Ende

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