Best 517 quotes in «empty quotes» category

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

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 how effectively it is arranged.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least good for something!! Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!!

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

Magicians guard an empty safe.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.

Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

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 and empty.

Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty LOVE TANK.

My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

No decision should be made on an empty shopping bag.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.