Empty Quotes

2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty. — Deb Caletti
The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So… — Luke Davies
Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?"… — Richelle Mead
Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only… — Antonio Machado
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. — Josef Pieper
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. — Epicurus
There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are… — Terry Pratchett
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood… — Scott Westerfeld
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.… — Jeanette Winterson
...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there… — Jodi Picoult
I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of… — Stephen Colbert
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming… — Kay Redfield Jamison
She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up… — Kate Morton
My soul is an empty carousel at sunset. — Pablo Neruda
The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when… — Sarah Dessen
Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty. — Lionel Shriver
Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of… — David Levithan
Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most… — Nicole Krauss
Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat… — Charlie Higson
Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow… — Jennifer Estep
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. — Veronica Roth
A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and soorte4d fruit toppings?" I dropped… — Rachel Vincent
Empty words almost echo within themselves — Cecelia Ahern
I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you — Diana Palmer
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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