Best empty & empty-words Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Spirit Sound Sleep Inspire Thousand Fame Glory Empty Vain Awake Immortal Honour Recalls Clay Trumpets Breathless Empty Words

Book:The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Thinking Men Helping Hands Baby Husband Clothes Garden Empty Mere Bridges Servant Plato Daddy Microbes Embroidery Empty Words Parallelogram

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.”

Wind Illusion Empty Ridiculous Immortality Butterfly Chasing Empty Words

Author:Milan Kundera

“To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.”

Empty Waking Morrow Empty Words

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.”

Looks Desire Speak Lord Authority Empty Angry Asceticism Bidding Empty Words

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

Literature Left Wind Communication Empty Unsaid Empty Words

Author:Homer

“Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.”

Way Life Conditions Intellectual Argument Empty Treasure Enthusiasm Excitement Sand Coins Magnificence Squandering Empty Words Flipping A Coin Excitement Of Life

Author:George Sand

“There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.”

Empty Remains Worn Worn Out Empty Words

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.”

Mind Shows Speak Silence Empty Silence Speaks Empty Mind Empty Words

Book:The Fire’s Stone

Source: The Fire’s Stone

“Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.”

“Empty words almost echo within themselves”

Empty Echoes Empty Words

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“And empty words are evil.”

Evil Empty Empty Words

Book:The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

Source: The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

“Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.”

Source: Poetical works

“Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.”

Matter Character Liberty Empty Weight Fundamentals Empty Words

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.”

Choices Decision Responsibility Accepting Imagine Honor Empty Empty Words

Author:Lynn Flewelling

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