Empty Quotes

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I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it… — Guy de Maupassant
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. — Denis Johnson
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of… — Rosamunde Pilcher
Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics. — Barry Hughart
As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… — Loren Eiseley
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the… — Margaret Atwood
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. — Thomas Pynchon
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me… — Deb Caletti
I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty. — Sharon Creech
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if… — Lisa Kleypas
There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may… — John O'Donohue
What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such… — Jodi Picoult
The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the… — Miriam Toews
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing,… — Alan Moore
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... — Stephen King
Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body… — Lois Lowry
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than… — Franz Kafka
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such… — Charlotte Bronte
If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend… — Khalil Gibran
Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road… — Rick Bragg
The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled. — Jodi Picoult

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