Empty Quotes
2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors
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Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy…
— Julia Quinn
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No empty handed man can lure a bird
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
— Markus Zusak
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Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the…
— Mitch Albom
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Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or…
— George Orwell
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This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the…
— Emily Giffin
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The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.
— Sara Teasdale
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Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty…
— Deb Caletti
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when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have…
— Jodi Picoult
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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart…
— Alexander Pushkin
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That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements in the living…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.
— Elizabeth Scott
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
— Sarah Dessen
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I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
— Joan Didion
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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
— Jack Kerouac
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Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind,…
— Jack Kerouac
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Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a…
— John Flanagan
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Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged…
— Muriel Barbery
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When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and…
— Raymond Chandler
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I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are…
— Donald Miller
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For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled.…
— Nora Roberts
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Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out…
— Jim Butcher
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