Empty Quotes

2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself. — Jane Fonda
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — Malcolm Forbes
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get… — Sam Harris
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of… — Ernest Hemingway
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. — Stephen Hawking
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. — Jimi Hendrix
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. — Eric Hoffer
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. — Eric Hoffer
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. — Homer
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse -… — Washington Irving
I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had… — Eddie Izzard
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face. — Juvenal
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. — Immanuel Kant
But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have… — Maynard James Keenan
My witness is the empty sky. — Jack Kerouac
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you… — Alicia Keys
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole.… — Jessica Lange
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely… — D. H. Lawrence
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. — Ang Lee
When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty. — Sugar Ray Leonard
I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty… — Jared Leto
I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey,… — Al Lewis
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach -… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel

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