Best 517 quotes in «empty quotes» category

The more I am getting to know these so called 'beautiful people' the more I am waking up to their emptiness. For them 'being tall' and 'being fair' is an achievement!

The music has teased and tickled me in an empty space that the most vacuous.

The politician is the poorest man in the world, the most empty man, the most hollow—stuffed with straw and nothing else.

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

The more you offer yourself to make life better for someone, the more you empty yourself of the load of destiny you carry into the world. Serve till you empty all.

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same lack in noise that lives, there! in the darkness of the grave, how it frightens me beyond all things.

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living.

There is even rhythm in being empty.

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

There is no one who was supposed to come to this world and leave empty.

There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.

...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

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

The size and height of the tree determines how heavily the ground will shake when it falls. The cassava tree falls and not even the pests in the forest are aware. The baobab tree falls and the whole forest looks empty! Such is human life!

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.

The right things to do aren't always the easiest actions to take. But we must push ourselves to do them, because without them life would forever seem empty or meaningless.

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.

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

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 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!

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.

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 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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

A canvas is never empty.

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

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

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 empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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

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.

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 promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

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

And empty heads console with empty sound.