Empty Quotes

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But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me… — Deb Caletti
I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty. — Sharon Creech
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if… — Lisa Kleypas
There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may… — John O'Donohue
What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such… — Jodi Picoult
The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the… — Miriam Toews
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing,… — Alan Moore
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... — Stephen King
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body… — Lois Lowry
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such… — Charlotte Bronte
If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend… — Khalil Gibran
Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road… — Rick Bragg
The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled. — Jodi Picoult
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just… — Truman Capote
This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her… — Jodi Picoult
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in… — Sarah Dessen
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the… — C.S. Lewis
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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