Best empty & leaving Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.”

Ends Artist Left Industry Empty Leaving Accountability Void Empty Life

Author:Stacie Orrico

“I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”

Ifs Feels Should Has Beens Hurt Laughing Empty And Love Leaving These Days Cried Shells Leaving Me Laugh And Love

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

“No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?”

Ifs Needs Should Next Space Minutes Ten Empty Leaving Breathe Spares Jam

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.”

Made Mother Courses Wonder Creative Mystery Empty Leaving Uncertainty Tension Journal Leaving Me Creative Tension

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.”

Thinking Said Would Be Wanted Powerful Mines Regret Lessons Empty Died Leaving Legacy Accomplished Funeral Grandfather No Regrets Leaving A Legacy

Author:Marvin Sapp

“When I was about 16 years old, God was beckoning me and calling me. He was relentless with me and I finally just gave up. I got to a point in my life where I realized that everything I was trying to grasp for was leaving me empty. It was totally unsatisfying.”

Trying Years Calling Empty Leaving I Realized Leaving Me Relentless Gave Up Beckoning

Author:Dominic Balli

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.”

People Way Giving Should Process Space Empty Leaving Unexpected Empty Space Attrition

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.”

Looks Hands Eye Found Black Dark Empty Green Moved Depth Leaving Fixed Pairs Blank Look At Me Snape Green Eyes Hand Holding

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”

Humans Wells Littles Bigs Seems Happens Dies Memories Existence Mistake Imagine Empty Bounds Leaving Oneself Spite Slips Sooner Or Later Human Existence Improbable Big Mistake

Book:Whatever: A Novel

Source: Whatever: A Novel

“When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)”

Feelings Hands Remember House Lost Left Saws Written Doors Cry Mouths Empty Leaving Very Good Disappear Ran Pie Rolling Doorways Aprons

Book:Stories and Early Novels

Source: Stories and Early Novels

“There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library ought to be composed half of books we have read and that have really counted for us, and half of books we propose to read and presume will come to count—leaving a section of empty shelves for surprises and occasional discoveries”

Book Half Ought Discovery Ideals Empty Surprise Leaving Library Shelves Sections Occasional Propose

Author:Italo Calvino

“Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.”

Long Dream Gone Plans Failing Fool Prove Empty Ears Luck Prepared Leaving Goodbye Deceived Mourn Saying Goodbye Degrade Deceptive Alexandria

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.”

Ifs Persons Country Reason Politics Heard Havens Promise Empty Notes Leaving Chiefs Reason Why Irritating Leaving The Country

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.”

Rooms Behinds Empty Leaving Forgotten Breakup Candle Burned Break Up Discontent Empty Rooms

Author:Paolo Giordano

“The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.”

World Humans Purpose Atheism Conditions Empty Ultimate Leaving Graves This Life Deceit Meaningless Human Condition Pathetic Find Me Transcendental Theism Theist

Book:Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz

Source: Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz

“Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.”

Body Pain Lying Clear Empty Leaving Wave Your Body Beach Grieving Tides Palms Vessel

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The 2:00 bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at 5:00.”

Needs Littles Two Tomorrow Empty Leaving Extras Parks Hotel Bus Extra Work

Author:Dave Bristol

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