Empty Quotes

2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors

We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get… — Ken Kesey
You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what… — Lloyd Alexander
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if… — Margaret Atwood
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it. — Ayn Rand
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was… — Anne Rice
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Jon Krakauer
Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the… — Sarah Vowell
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… — Knut Hamsun
I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders,… — Francesca Lia Block
Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you're close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to be unimportant unless… — Christina Dodd
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for… — Haruki Murakami
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self. — Mother Teresa
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the… — Wendell Berry
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst. — Margaret Atwood
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and… — Madeleine L'Engle
Now that im older i'm more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I'm trying to concentrate on those things as… — Mary-Kate Olsen
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the… — Philip K. Dick
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? — Unknown Author

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