I Am Empty Quotes

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

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.

Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.

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

Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

All work is empty save when there is love.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

Great accomplishment seems imperfect, Yet it does not outlive its usefulness. Great fullness seems empty, Yet it cannot be exhausted.

Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

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

In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Now that im older i'm more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I'm trying to concentrate on those things as opposed to things that make feel empty

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

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

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now?

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.