Empty Quotes

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Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe… — Kelley Armstrong
There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings. — David Levithan
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been… — Virginia Woolf
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge… — George Eliot
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You… — John Fante
He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only… — Laura Hillenbrand
A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great… — Mother Teresa
You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila… — Khaled Hosseini
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world. — Louise Brooks
Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. Theyâ€™re bored with their lives and thereâ€™s nothing they can do… — Lev Grossman
You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue! — Roald Dahl
Iâ€™m erased. Iâ€™m gone. Iâ€™m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowlâ€¦. Andâ€¦ I see.… — Jerry Spinelli
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it. — Barbara Kingsolver
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the… — Nicole Krauss
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly… — Terry Pratchett
I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling. — Maggie Stiefvater
If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well… — Sylvia Plath
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would… — James A. Baldwin
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. — Eric Hoffer

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