Best 517 quotes in «empty quotes» category

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

Words are but empty thanks.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right." - Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw

You can't save souls in an empty church.

You could start an argument in an empty house.

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.

afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes wherever the affliction leads it, and 'accumulates' a bad action. there are a great many different kinds of afflictions, but the chief of them are desire, hatred, pride, wrong view and so forth. of these, desire and hatred are chief. because of an initial attachment to oneself, hatred arises when something undesirable occurs. further, through being attached to oneself the pride that holds one to be superior arises, and similarly when one has no knowledge of something, a wrong view that holds the object of this knowledge to be non-existent arises. how do self-attachment and so forth arise in such great force? because of beginningless conditioning, the mind tightly holds to 'i, i' even in dreams, and through the power of this conception, self-attachment and so forth occur. this false conception of 'i' arises because of one's lack of knowledge concerning the mode of existence of things. the fact that all objects are empty of inherent existence is obscured and one conceives things to exist inherently; the strong conception of 'i' derives from this. therefore, the conception that phenomena inherently exist is the afflicting ignorance that is the ultimate root of all afflictions.

As the bus took us north on a connection of dark farm roads and smaller highways, I started to wonder where all the cars were. How could the streets be so empty? How could people sleep when there was so much at stake, so much happening, when there were so many reasons to be awake and alive? And I wondered how it was that I could feel both empty, like these streets, and yet so full at the same time. And those weren't the only contrasting poles inside me. I felt sad and happy. Scared and exhilarated. I felt young and old.

And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.

An empty street sucks your fullness; a full street fills your emptiness!

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.

A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy.

A writer's circle is never empty, there are plenty of imaginary friends.

Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment

But darling, I wish that I could tell you all about it. tell you about the battles that I’ve fought alone, the darkness that has swallowed all of me, the moments I had to pretend that I was strong and unbreakable while my heart was aching inside, and I wish I could tell you how many times I’ve been left so empty because I was such a fool to pour all of my heart into another human. Would you stay here with me and listen without having to leave..?

Bucket I feel so dreamy dreamy lazy, crazy sleepy like I want to be there in the doorway, the doorway or the porch corner be sitting, be empty notdoing not going an old bucket left there in the porch corner is like I am an old empty bucket somebody left there.

Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.