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“Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.”

Littles Long Done Death Certain Born Flow Tasks Empty Long Ago

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.”

Want Mind Said Home Used Actors Asks Father Born My Own Environment Saws Wife Car Empty Hollywood Towns Shops Coming Home Autographs Empty Mind

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.”

Men Earth Mother Universe Names Born Perfect Four Return Flow All Things Empty Infinite Great Men Solitary Tao Serene Great Power Unchanging Inside And Outside Power Man

Author:Laozi

“Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.”

People Born Kindness Empty Deeds Good Deeds Loving Kindness

Book:That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story

Source: That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story

“If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.”

Ifs Littles Home Born Love You Empty Silver Finding Yourself Spoons Little Money Silver Spoons

Author:Jake T. Austin

“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”

Years Hands Night Dies Stars Born Hours Millions Sun Forever Week Sky Minutes Months Moon Rain Empty Notes Clouds Circles Scales Snow Clock Fades Swings Reborn Second Hand Sun Rise Revolving Rain And Snow

Book:Prelude

Source: Prelude

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”

Ifs Giving Heart Kind May Made Sometimes Helping Hands Born Sweet Comfort Gay Laughter Empty Warm Princess Giver Sweet Things Little Princess

Book:A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“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

“I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.”

Firsts Made Ends Eye Born Space Poor Impossible Rocks Huge Hair Horror Mountain Sitting Empty Flesh Gentle Remembered Cute Climbing Straws Empty Space Ledges

Author:Jack Kerouac

“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”

“Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.”

Ifs Giving Helping Action Asks Born Kindness Empty Inspired Refuse Pockets Be Inspired

Author:Immaculee Ilibagiza

“Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.”

Dies Born Empty

Book:Mutant Message Down Under

Source: Mutant Message Down Under

“I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky... Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits.”

Thinking Knows Believe Kind Children Persons Life Is Stars Bits Born Knowing Sky Empty Not Knowing Unnecessary Cranes Stars In The Sky

Author:Sarah Ruhl