Empty Quotes

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Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty… — Rabindranath Tagore
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. — Graham Greene
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I didnâ€™t know how much I could love until you were gone. Until your laughter no longer filled my home, your wicked high jinks no… — Lora Leigh
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But youâ€™ll have no sense of self… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
God gives where he finds empty hands. — Saint Augustine
That evening I rode downtown on an unaccountably empty bus, sitting in the last row. At the front I saw a thin cloud of smoke… — Michael Chabon
It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one… — Chuck Palahniuk
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… — Franz Kafka
In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be… — Michael Ondaatje
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with… — Khalil Gibran
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. — Sarah Dessen
Thatâ€™s exactly what Iâ€™m talking about. Thatâ€™s the evil thatâ€™s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead… — Edward Eager
This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death. — Chuck Palahniuk
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is… — Huston Smith
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose… — Stephen Hawking
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the… — Ray Bradbury
I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours… — Ahdaf Soueif

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