Empty Quotes

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when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have… — Jodi Picoult
Iâ€™ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all thatâ€™s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
That night, like every other night since Iâ€™d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parentsâ€™ muffled movements in the living… — Maggie Stiefvater
The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. — Elizabeth Scott
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. — Sarah Dessen
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia Oâ€™Keeffe had done with where… — Joan Didion
Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha — Jack Kerouac
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind,… — Jack Kerouac
Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a… — John Flanagan
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged… — Muriel Barbery
When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and… — Raymond Chandler
I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are… — Donald Miller
For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled.… — Nora Roberts
Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out… — Jim Butcher
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made… — Jim Butcher
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and… — Charles Robert Maturin
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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