Empty Quotes

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The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any… — Doris Lessing
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence,… — Saadi
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? — Veronica Roth
I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas… — Gayle Forman
It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas… — Anne Lamott
Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out. — Thrity Umrigar
...it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression." "That's all right, Beldin," Silk forgave him grandly. "These little slips… — David Eddings
...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied… — David Eddings
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there… — Louisa May Alcott
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid. — Margaret Atwood
I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea. — FÃ©lix J. Palma
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and… — William Butler Yeats
So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one… — Marc Acito
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is… — Milan Kundera
I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when… — Jean Rhys
He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull… — Jay Asher
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had… — Jennifer Egan
[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it.… — Steven Moffat
Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll… — Howard Schultz
Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right… — Ted Dekker
…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that… — George Sand
I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the… — Sarah Dessen
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in… — Sarah Dessen
Poseidon grinned. "You're doing well with those new cabins, by the way. I suppose this means I can claim all those other sons and daughters… — Rick Riordan

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