Empty Quotes

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Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He… — Jodi Picoult
I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles quick and heavy.… — James Frey
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings. — Gunter Grass
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. — Sherman Alexie
Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation… — C.S. Lewis
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,… — Alan Moore
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty… — Simone Weil
Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea,… — Sharon Shinn
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. — Carl Sagan
Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't… — Janet Fitch
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled. — Bette Greene
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a… — Laura Whitcomb
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth… — Janet Fitch
Don't bother. The glass is half-empty. — Norman Vincent Peale
Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches. — Tallulah Bankhead
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need… — J M Coetzee
My will can control anything that’s empty. — Michael Ende
In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man,… — Elie Wiesel
You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive. — Richelle Mead
When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A… — Elizabeth Chandler
Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who… — Henri Nouwen
I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass… — Sarah Dessen
Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY. — Akira Toriyama
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the… — William Faulkner
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and… — John Berger

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