Empty Quotes

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We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to… — Paulo Coelho
Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it… — Clifford D. Simak
You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. — George Orwell
The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the… — Anna Akhmatova
The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your… — Arlene J. Chai
Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if… — Leonard Cohen
Whatâ€™s that poem again?â€ Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: â€œEach spake words of high… — Cassandra Clare
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your… — Cesare Pavese
Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars. — Edwidge Danticat
I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is… — Sylvia Plath
Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their… — Austin Osman Spare
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. — Ralph Ellison
When youâ€™re in love, itâ€™s not just about the messing around in the sack, itâ€™s about how empty you feel when theyâ€™re gone. — Ozzy Osbourne
And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse.… — Lauren DeStefano
It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out… — Henry David Thoreau
But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valeriusâ€™s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small… — Rosemary Sutcliff
You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass. — Richard Paul Evans
You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place… — Lucy Christopher
We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all… — Jack Kerouac
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose — Elena Ferrante

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