Empty Quotes
2485 quotes by 1729 authors
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…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that…
— George Sand
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I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the…
— Sarah Dessen
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I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in…
— Sarah Dessen
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Poseidon grinned. "You're doing well with those new cabins, by the way. I suppose this means I can claim all those other sons and daughters…
— Rick Riordan
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Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It…
— Sarah Dessen
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To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent…
— Osamu Dazai
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The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions…
— Susan Orlean
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There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag…
— Markus Zusak
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and…
— Sylvia Plath
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Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too…
— C.S. Lewis
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And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are…
— Jean Webster
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I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of…
— Ayn Rand
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I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting…
— Sylvia Plath
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They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry…
— Karen Marie Moning
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