Empty Quotes

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Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow… — Corrie Ten Boom
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.… — L. Frank Baum
9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then… — Helen Fielding
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why… — Anton Chekhov
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest… — William Shakespeare
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.… — Unknown Author
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely… — Terry Pratchett
Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it… — Barbara Pym
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room". — Frederick Salomon Perls
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going… — Margaret Mitchell
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. — Lois Lowry
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I… — Jack Kerouac
But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards. — Sherman Alexie
And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could… — Emily Bronte
When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are… — Naomi Klein
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against… — Harlan Ellison
I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if… — Charles Bukowski
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. — Tom Stoppard
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren
Places that are empty of you are empty of life. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who… — John Green
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and… — Charles Bukowski
Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. — Cornelia Funke
The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and… — Anne Ursu

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