Empty Quotes
2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
— Anais Nin
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I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
— Sylvia Plath
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Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who condescended to come into this world of misery, struggle, and pain to touch men's hearts for good,…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any…
— Mitch Albom
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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
— Harper Lee
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Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God…
— Andrew Murray
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I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town
— Taylor Swift
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...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling,"…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time.…
— Conn Iggulden
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Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking…
— Ben Goldacre
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He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been…
— Charles Frazier
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I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be…
— Jack Kerouac
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I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long…
— John Marsden
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What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what…
— Milan Kundera
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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was…
— Jodi Picoult
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Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?
— Honore de Balzac
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It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly…
— Honore de Balzac
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If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get…
— Dale Carnegie
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Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.
— Tanya Huff
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Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your…
— Maya Angelou
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There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah…
— Nicholas Sparks
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...she was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and…
— Joanne Fluke
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