I Am Empty Quotes

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?

Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.

There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Life is an empty dream.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning

"Tell me, doctor, " said the patient, "when I stand on my head, the blood rushes to it. Why doesn't it rush to my feet now?" "That's because your feet aren't empty," said the doctor.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

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.

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.

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.

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.

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.

We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

I would rather be dead than empty

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's an empty jar.

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.