Fill Quotes
1857 Fill quotes by 1350 unique authors
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I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people,…
— Joan Didion
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The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need…
— Claudia Gray
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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I…
— Cornelia Funke
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as…
— Jane Austen
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Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by…
— Ernest Hemingway
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You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a…
— Wallace Stegner
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Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I…
— Anne Rice
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Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm…
— Sarah Dessen
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I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite.…
— Anita Diament
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The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies,…
— Sharon Creech
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He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,…
— John Fowles
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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and…
— Pascal Mercier
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Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Although it may not seem like it, this isn’t a story about darkness. It’s about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur and the pouring dark Fill the wide vessel of the universe... Chorus Henry V
— William Shakespeare
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Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering.…
— Mary E. Pearson
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Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain,…
— Gayle Forman
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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where…
— Miranda July
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Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.
— Richard P. Feynman
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