I Am Empty Quotes

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

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

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

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.

To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line.

Magicians guard an empty safe.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

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

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

When the mind is most empty It is most full.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.