Best empty & left 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 knew Arizona's SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law. While the anti-American open-borders Left attack me and the law as 'racist,' 'nativist' and their other empty smear words, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.”

People States Would Be America Law Left Support Empty Majority Debate Immigration Borders Racist Controversial Arizona Anti-american

Author:Russell Pearce

“Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.”

Turns Left Water Fire Our Lives Son Empty Wine Ems Pot

Author:Joanne Harris

“The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.”

Problem Left Empty Anger Tanks Burn Out

Book:The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery

Source: The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery

“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”

“the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.”

“Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.”

Thinking Mean Would Be Jobs Left Wish Careers Keys Empty Be Good Good Job

Author:Brad Pitt

“In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.”

Night Left Work Empty Mark Luck Vanity Frustration Toil Remorse Purses Perplexity

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.”

“My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.”

Ifs Years Turns House Left Clear Dangerous Wall Empty Satisfaction Horrible Latter Grandmother Suspicion Electricity My Grandmother Turn Off Bulbs Dripping Off The Wall Leakage

Author:James Thurber

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

Literature Left Wind Communication Empty Unsaid Empty Words

Author:Homer

“In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had success in baseball and was very popular in school but all these things, which the world chases after, left me empty and unfulfilled. Through a series of trials and difficult times, the Lord opened my eyes to my sin and what would truly fulfill me. June 9, 2001, I received forgiveness and the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ.”

Men World Eye School Young Jesus Left Difficult Interest Christ My Own Sin Lord College Eternal Jesus Christ Empty Baseball Series Trials Young Man Difficult Times June Eternal Life Very Popular

Author:Luke Scott

“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.”

Thinking Humans Certain Left Rooms Taken Wall Shadow Empty Mark Photograph Disappear Absence Etc Empty Rooms

Author:Mona Kuhn

“God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.”

Way Happens House Left Strange Empty Moved Disappear Phenomenon Host Guests Strange Phenomena

Author:Rajneesh

“How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.”

People Young Left Groups Drug Europe Ideals Empty Alcohol Fundamentalist

Author:Pope Francis

“Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.”

Ifs Book Would Be Left Paper Empty Passages

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.”

Children Home Left Stuff Black Space Attention Careers Gone Huge Empty Holes Who I Am Your Children Tied Time And Space Mothering Black Hole

Author:Jessica Lange

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

Ifs Men Dream Left Rooms Talking Television Planets Tvs Communication Standing Empty Communicate Stranger Mysterious Stoves Empty Rooms

Book:America

Source: America

“She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”

Ifs Needs Years Long Has Beens Lasts Left Grows Felt Space Gone Impossible Tree Love You Long Time Empty Filled Fence Hollow Empty Space History Of Love

Author:Nicole Krauss

“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 have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.”

Heart Stills Ends Dream Desire Left Grief Wonder Tree Lonely Empty Seasons Winter Storm Naked Leafs Limbs Chill Ruthless Numb Trembling Desolation Garlands Whistling Empty Heart Tree Limbs

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.”

Knows Needs Wells Doe Shows Joy Guy Left Loneliness Identity Depression Empty Pockets Badges

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.”

Knows Bigs Fall Belief Left Black Gone Habit Empty Holes Charm Black Hole

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.”

“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.”

Ifs Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Faces Night Found Left Voice Rooms Comfort Empty Rings Despite Disturbing Thinking Of Him

Book:Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.”

Years Feelings Would Be Past Remember Faces Left Grief Empty Grateful Remembered Accomplished Bitterness Agony Healer

Book:The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Two Mother Three Left Space Rooms Four Empty Ears Harder Hot Dancing Being A Mother Time To Think Empty Space

Author:Sharon Creech

“Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.”

People Way Feels Humans Wells Made Feelings Bigs Seems Left Deals Empty Everyday Contact Awful Fake Big Deal Hollow

Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.”

Said Stills Use Left Water Love Is Sea Ocean Empty Dry Buckets Love Is Like

Book:The Safe-Keeper's Secret

Source: The Safe-Keeper's Secret

“I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.”

Heart Dream Desire Left Fire Failure Empty Dust Emptiness Rust Empty Heart

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“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

“In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.”

Would Be Father Left Water Months Needed Empty Glasses Bars Piano Canada Drank Dwarfs

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”

Left Space Behinds Empty Filling Left Behind Folds Empty Space Wildness Second Place Filling Up

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a treacherous path that will cost you everything you love and hold dear. You have to let that anger go before it’s too late. Vengeance always turns inward and it will consume you until nothing’s left but an empty hole that nothing can fill. (Ambrose)”

Turns Evil Left Talking Path Blood Cost Late Empty Dear Holes Too Late Inward Vengeance Seducing Tempting Crawling Treacherous Before It's Too Late

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Light Left Growing Empty Stronger Bones Bags Again And Again Growing Stronger

Book:Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection

Source: Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection

“What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?”

Character Stories Would Be Turns Left Sides Common Situation Empty Essence Love Story Dumb Concrete Castles Illusory Ophelia

Author:Milan Kundera

“I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.”

“But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.”

Left Felt Empty Smarter Ivy

Author:Kim Harrison

“It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.”

Thinking Way Ideas Helping Light Left Grace Empty Grateful Charm Desperate Isolated Charming Embarrassed Electricity Breeze Juice Bright Ideas Isolated Places

Author:Anne Lamott

“Remember: You'll be left with an empty feeling if you hit the finish line alone. When you run a race as a team, though, you'll discover that much of the reward comes from hitting the tape together. You want to be surrounded not just by cheering onlookers but by a crowd of winners, celebrating as one.”

Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.”

Moments Dies Next Left Situation Our Lives Minutes Car Fronts Balance Empty Determine Driving Tunes Crash Unpredictable Lanes Down The Road One Minute Whistling Driving Down The Road

Author:Ted Dekker

“Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.”

Ideas Left Growing Return Becoming Empty Affair Dimensions Sculpture Castles

Book:Bitterblue

Source: Bitterblue

“In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.”

“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”

World Sometimes Light Remember Found Left Grief Empty Wave Wrecks

Author:Donna Tartt

“Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.”

Humans Looks Time Suffering Lost Left Creative Empty Filled Possession Human Life Enjoyment Endeavor Disturbing Life Time Irrevocable Precious Gifts Lost Time Time Left

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?”

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.”

Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”

Thinking Men Mind Real States Philosophy Shows Happiness Evil Left Differences Doubt Greatness Empty Aim Checks No Doubt Emptiness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.”

Feelings Girl Left Empty Attractive Hollow Caffeine Attractive Girl

Author:Adam Levine

“Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.”

Self Left Empty Flesh Stealing Former Burning Gum Vindictive Bandits Sagging

Author:Raphael

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