Empty Quotes

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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to… — Samuel Beckett
It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather… — Edward Tufte
He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was… — J R Ward
Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d… — Rick Riordan
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering… — C.S. Lewis
Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue… — Ilona Andrews
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity.… — Fulton J. Sheen
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a… — Graham Swift
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. — Vincent Van Gogh
Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she… — Patricia McCormick
The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the… — Erin Morgenstern
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment. — Jess Walter
The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell… — Gayle Forman
i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life.… — Nora Roberts
Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago." I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead." He nods. "Marr...iage. — Isaac Marion
Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give… — Judith McNaught
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all… — George Eliot
Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Joan Didion
If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others -… — Marya Hornbacher
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the… — Eckhart Tolle
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In… — William Shakespeare
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank… — Philip Sington
They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who… — Alexandra Bracken
Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is… — Brent Weeks

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