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Quotes About Empty

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.
~ Nicole Kidman
Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least good for something!! Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!!
~ Aya Nakahara
Like a kiss, the pain which envelops us will leave and in it's place there will be an empty pit.
~ Colten Charles Baker
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
~ Carl Sagan
you can be homeless in your heart, too. You can be empty inside yourself because you have no spiritual center. You can wander through life without any real sense of who you are or where you belong. You can exist without purpose or cause.
~ Terry Brooks
By TERRY BROOKS ONE HUMMING TUNELESSLY, THE RAGPICKER WALKED THE barren, empty wasteland in the aftermath of the rainstorm.
~ Terry Brooks
Moonlight flooded through the open window, illuminating a bed, a chest at its foot, and a small table and chair. There was nothing else, and what remained was splintered and broken and empty of anything useful. Bones from another life, the skeleton of better times—it made her cry all over again.
~ Terry Brooks
They were left to wait, cocooned in a vacuum of fear and doubt, of non-information and empty hope.
~ Terry Brooks
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short.
~ Terry Pratchett
There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.
~ Terry Pratchett
There was something pleasant about an empty classroom. Of course, as any teacher would point out, one nice thing was that there were no children in it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Was I the servant of a sovereign wish, Or ladle rattling in an empty dish?
~ Theodore Roethke
God? Come off it, the heavens are empty, as empty as a corpse. There's nothing in the sky but shells and all the other murderous devices made by men . . .
~ Gabriel Chevalier
The detail of Macbeth throwing dinner rolls at Banquo's empty chair comes from the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2018 production of Macbeth, directed by Polly Findlay and starring Christopher Eccleston in the title role.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki said, "The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.
~ Gavin de Becker
I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot. It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.
~ Brian Andreas
Marco smiles, they shake hands, and Robert Blackfeather Sherman sees it again, as he did when Marco knelt before him just a few minutes ago: The light warps around Marco Angelo Oliveira; the colors of the trees and sky stretch and smear, as if Marco is an empty place in the shape of a man and the earth and air around him are screaming to fill it.
~ Brian Francis Slattery
Under contract!" she shouted. "Under contract!" Dawn sounded so happy, and I thought of my mother, who always distrusted loud public expressions of happiness. "Those who loudly insist on their happiness are rarely happy." Those were my mother's words. But Dawn's chanting of "Under contract!" made me also think of these words by John Calvin: "What shall we then say of chanting, which fills the ears with nothing but an empty sound?
~ Brock Clarke
Mona leaned over and picked it up. Inside were hairy spiders. She shook the bottle. No, it was empty.
~ Bryan Costales
senses could be dulled, and you might withdraw into yourself, feeling numb and empty.
~ Burgess,, Wes
En todas las cosas está oculto siempre un significado: de lo contrario, poco valdrían, y el mundo mismo no sería más que una cifra vacía
~ Herman Melville
I'll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn't touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.
~ Ian Mcewan
Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?
~ Ilona Andrews
Michael Bisping just speaks to speak; he just talks to talk. He just tries to open his mouth so that something can be heard, but nothing's going to come out.
~ Yoel Romero