Empty Quotes

Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!”“Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his voice level. Blaine grinned at him lopsidedly and giggled, almost choking. He slapped the table, knocking his empty glass over.“Ye-ss, I am! Don’t ssup-pose you – think I co-uld ssit here an’ calmly wait t’die – dýou? Weee-ll, not ssob-er anyway. Ha ha ha.”Disgust and hopelessness were swelling inside him. He felt like punching that drunken face till it was either sober or unconscious.“Damn it, Captain! We need you – the crew needs you! You’re turning your back on them – in our most desperate time!

~ Christina Engela

I think I’m going to cut down on my dating,’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren’t always the answer.

~ Francine Pascal

Empty yourself to fill the void with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

~ Kate Mcgahan

For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. (Another empty room)

~ Erik Pevernagie

After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

~ Anthony Liccione

No one feels your empty stomach, but everyone does your empty brain.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk where book had been checked out in days when books were still being checked out. He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

~ Richard Matheson

Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers at Immigration, getting into a massive cab that didn't have a moment to waste, and falling in love as soon as we shot onto the bridge and I saw Manhattan rise up through the looks of parental terror reflected in the window. I lost my virginity in New York, twice (the second one wanted to believe he was the first so badly). I had my mind blown open by the combination of a liberal arts education and a drug-popping international crowd. I became tough. I had fun. I learned so much.But now New York was starting to feel empty, a great party that had gone on too long and was showing no sign of ending soon. I had a headache, and I was tired. I'd danced enough. I wanted a quiet conversation with someone who knew what load-shedding was.

~ Mohsin Hamid

I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give.

~ Jasmine Warga

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

~ Jean Rhys

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.

~ Richard Siken

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.

~ J.w. Lord

Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled.

~ Munia Khan

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.

~ Anthony Liccione

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

~ Erik Pevernagie

If nothing lasts forever, then I am forever nothing.

~ Anthony Liccione

People who make great impact are well remembered due to the empty seats that remain after their death. It takes time to fill the empty seats that are left unoccupied by people who walked great in great footprints.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

~ Sarah Dessen

I wanted to give you everything, to withhold nothing from you, but then one day there was nothing left to give.

~ Kate Mcgahan

It is at the times when I feel that I have nothing that the gem lies in the palm of my hand.

~ Holly A. Smith

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

~ Antonio Porchia

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

~ Dee Hock

Our life is full of empty space.

~ Umberto Eco

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

~ Al Smith

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

~ Jack Williamson

An empty canvas is full.

~ Robert Rauschenberg

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

~ Saint Augustine

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

~ Malcolm Forbes

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

~ Mason Cooley