Empty Quotes
2485 quotes by 1617 authors
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I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn…
— Marian Keyes
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Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.
— Paulo Coelho
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
— Ray Bradbury
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What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?
— Derek Landy
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Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody…
— Haruki Murakami
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Your file was empty. Nothing. Not even an immunization record.†He didn’t even pretend to look surprised. He eased back in his seat, eyes gleaming…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
— Mark Twain
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He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems…
— Mira Grant
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You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words…
— Marguerite Duras
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Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
— Marguerite Duras
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I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally…
— C.S. Lewis
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The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist…
— Jacques Derrida
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Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.
— Maria V. Snyder
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This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.
— Diane Keaton
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Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a…
— Patrick deWitt
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