Empty Quotes - Page 8

• When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.

  Jan Hellriegel

  Gratitude, Sick, And Love

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• When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fear, World, Shapes

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.78, Vintage Canada

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• He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

  John Banville

  Fear, Dark, Space

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• Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Fear, Men, Air

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• There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.

  Jesse Browner

  Crush, Dream, Fear

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• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.

  Nick Flynn

  Heart, Sunday, Bye

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• We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
  Without them, we are empty.

  Daisy Whitney

  Ideas, People, Juicy

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• To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

  Eunhyuk

  Soccer, Empty Life, Would Be

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• As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

  Will Shortz

  Space, Natural, Compulsion

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• Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

  Eleanor Brown

  Selfish, Empty Vessels, Care

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• We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Listening Ear, Space, People

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• Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

  Alan Guth

  Average, Space, Realizing

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• We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

  Jerry Springer

  Empty Vessels, Moral, Born

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• Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Single Mom, Thinking, Essence

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

  Nigahiga

  Glasses, Pessimistic, Half

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• Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

  Mario Cuomo

  Sports, Drug, World

  Commencement Address at Iona College on June 03, 1984. "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

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• Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

  Elton John

  Garden, Play

  Song: Empty Garden, Album: Jump Up, 1982

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• There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

  Stephen King

  Encouraging, Islands, Sky

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• There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

  Gustav Klimt

  Long

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• When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.

  Rickson Gracie

  Fighting, Unique, Expectations

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• Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Buckets, Transformation

  "Marilyn Manson: Man That You Fear". Interview with Dan Epstein, www.revolvermag.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Imagination, Imagine

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

  John Lyly

  Ignorance, Empty Vessels, Sound

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.42, Manchester University Press

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• You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Bird, Cages

  Song: Crucify, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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