Empty Quotes

2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors

An empty man is full of himself. — Edward Abbey
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and… — C.S. Lewis
Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I… — Melina Marchetta
She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness… — Anne Sexton
I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar. — Erin Morgenstern
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part… — Alan Watts
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. — Karl Barth
I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream,… — Stephenie Meyer
What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured… — Louise Penny
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full… — Vera Nazarian
Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp… — Denise Levertov
I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered.… — Kim Harrison
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and… — Paula McLain
I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest… — James Frey
Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names. — Umberto Eco
The world is a navy in an empty ocean. — Dejan Stojanovic
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? — Dejan Stojanovic
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath. — Jeaniene Frost
We linked hands—my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I—and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good… — Kiersten White
Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s… — Brandon Sanderson
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine… — Jeffrey Eugenides
And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her… — Etgar Keret
I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting… — Ian Mcewan

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