Empty Quotes

2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors

Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just… — Elizabeth Gilbert
From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It… — Sarah Dessen
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent… — Osamu Dazai
The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions… — Susan Orlean
There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not… — Gregory David Roberts
Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag… — Markus Zusak
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and… — Sylvia Plath
Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too… — C.S. Lewis
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are… — Jean Webster
I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How could someone with a life this full feel this empty? — Sarah Addison Allen
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of… — Ayn Rand
I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting… — Sylvia Plath
They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry… — Karen Marie Moning
Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The… — Pablo Neruda
It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my… — Maggie Stiefvater
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty. — Arthur Golden
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of… — Paulo Freire
I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays. — Fernando Pessoa
Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness.… — Virginia Woolf
Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for… — J R Ward
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will.… — Marquis de Sade
Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and… — Constantine Peter Cavafy
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls

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