Best empty & alive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.”

Knows Seems Beauty Kindness Cutting Alive Empty Bones Desert Untouchables

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.”

Mind Night Worry Alive Empty Unhappy Pockets Every Night Happy Thoughts

Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

Ifs Needs Feels Looks Next Waiting Alive Week Streets Building Return Empty Tired Crowds Scales Loud Department Tigers Stadiums Geology Next Week Cannons Lsu Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.”

Soul Matter Pain Alive Cold Safe Empty Hunger Chains My Soul Scar

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.”

“How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.”

People Feels Stills Body Eye Dies Three Left Waiting Term Accepting Alive Minutes Walking Empty Safety Intention Killing More Time Say Anything

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.”

Thinking Knows Humans Looks Children Life Is Stars Born Human Beings Our Lives Alive Sky Wind Empty Nonsense Have Faith Cranes Stars In The Sky

Author:Anton Chekhov

“McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he is still so familiar. I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.”

People Ifs Feels Stills I Can Sometimes Matter Reason Eye Lost Felt Space Alive Imagine Empty Glasses Stranger Familiar Noses Touched Agony Her Eyes Limbs Foreheads I Love Him Empty Space

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.”

Ifs Said Stills Wonder Alive Empty Rose Agony Kill Me Without You

Book:Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

“Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.”

People World Moving Dies Can Do Alive Magic Empty Blind Longing Bored Blank

Book:The Magicians: A Novel

Source: The Magicians: A Novel

“So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.”

Source: How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)

“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air. He lived, though was not truly alive”

Alive Air Share Events Circumstances Empty Screens Mates Vessel

Author:J.R. Ward

“You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found. I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed.”

People Said Running Earth Found Lost Sleep Perfect Alive Blood Building Red Empty Longing Disappear Covered Far Away Better Life Getting Lost

Book:Stolen

Source: Stolen

“I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

“Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive”

Men Firsts Felt Alive Advice Cold Empty

Book:The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

Source: The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

“If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible.”

Ifs Thinking Should Mean Matter Alive Empty Breathe Complaining Block Buddhist Emptiness Impermanence

Book:Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries

Source: Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries

“Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.”

Trying May Doe Would Be Pain Alive Cost Empty Grieving Nonsense Gaps Communion Those We Love

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“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.”

Men Spiritual Spirituality Religious Alive Conscious Empty Unions Mere Imitation Drudgery Religious Life

Author:Alan Watts

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