Best 517 quotes in «empty quotes» category

The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.

They are empty the way only things that contained too much can be.

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.

To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world, and never the return. As only the unreal is not ignoble and empty, existence must be admitted to be abominable. Yes, imagination is the only good thing which heaven vouchsafes to the skeptic and pessimist, alarmed by the eternal abjectness of life.

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

We've reached the age where we can't function without our glasses. Especially if they're empty.

What can we expect from an empty shell Where many hearts of pearl once beat to dwell Waves fail to break hard layer's bond of love Wailing shore sends memoir to the sky above

When I was little, I was out riding my brand-new blue bicycle when I decided to see how far I could keep going without looking back even once. I could feel with my back how my neighborhood was receding, further and further away... but I kept pedaling with all my might, my mind almost going blank. All I could hear was the sound of my own heart, thumping wildly in my ears. Even now, I remember it sometimes. What exactly was I trying to do that day? What was it that I wanted to prove? It's no good. My mind just keeps fogging over. I have this irritating sound stuck in my head. What is it? This sound... Ohh... I know what it is. This is... the sound of emptiness.

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")

When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchmarks need an unremitting reset. ("Another empty room")

When you know as much as we do, nothing matters. Things just repeat. Day and night, summer and winter. The world is empty and aimless. Everything circles around. Whatever starts up must pass away,whatever is born must die. It all cancels out, good or bad, beautiful or ugly.

Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!

With bones of ships and soldiers at her feet. With blood on her hands and nothing inside.

Worrying is like a dominoes effect, that rolls from one day into the next, into a week, a month, a year; never accomplishing anything but stress, until it hits that last tile, which drops unfulfilled to an empty ground.

You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!

You can go with an empty pocket and come back heavily loaded if you allow your passion to escort you!

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.

You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.

You must be so empty inside: that is why you show your outside!

Your heart was a wishing well. Bottomless. Trying to love you bankrupted me.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

A canvas is never empty.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

And empty heads console with empty sound.

...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't fine you." "I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

An empty canvas is full.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

An open mind but not an empty head.

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.