Empty Quotes - Page 34

• 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.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Peaceful, Patient, Miserable

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• He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Said, Knows

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moon, Law, Circles

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• I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all―just the one small piece. He deserved better than that―better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Order, House

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Loss, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Winter, Love Is, Fever

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We have abolished that help, and in its place we will rule,' offering no help at all: taking but not giving, ruling but not obeying, telling but not listening, taking life and not giving it. The slayers govern now, without interference; the dreams of mankind have become empty.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Men, Offering

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• Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Animal

  Women in Love (1920) ch. 11

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• Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Taken, Water, Pot

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.130, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

  Kim Harrison

  Ivy, Smarter, Felt

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• When Rae got back, she spread her empty hands wide and said "Okay, guess where I hid it." She even turned around for me, but I couldn't see a bulge big enough to hide a flashlight. With a grin, she reached down the front of her shirt into the middle of her bra, and pulled out a flashlight with flourish. I laughed. "Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hands, Pockets, Enough

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• He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Found Someone, Space

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

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• Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Air, Expression

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• Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

  Jack London

  Book, Glasses, Light

  "Novels and Social Writings".

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• She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wine, Men, Space

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• You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Wind, Pie, Magic

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• Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Years, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.161, Vintage

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Heart, Found

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• What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Warrior, Thinking, Doors

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• And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and empty and let it all pass through you. This is the key, you have learned – to relinquish control, to relinquish the desire for control. Even in this late drama, to try to control is to go mad. And so you do your best to let it all go.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Drama, Grief, Keys

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• Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

  Mary Balogh

  Beautiful, People, Shells

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  Pain, Disappointment, Heart

  Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (2004). “Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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• You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  School, Thinking, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Silly, Home

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• The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Men, Filled Up

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