Best empty & long Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

“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

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

Way Wells Long Opportunity Imagination Space Rooms Known Empty Well Known

Book:Golden

Source: Golden

“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”

Long Wisdom Pages Empty Blank

Book:Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”

Long Empty Remains Library Shelves

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.”

Feels Kind Long Hard Wanted Lasts Waiting Enjoy Half Taste Window Empty Drunk Beer Awake Over You Swimming Tasty Go Hard

Author:Ken Kesey

“I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.”

Ifs Feels Littles Long Grows Grief Baby Bed Singing Lows Flow Empty And Love Feds Milk Nurse Pillow

Book:Hannah Coulter: A Novel

Source: Hannah Coulter: A Novel

“As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went - indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.”

Long Difficult Silence Enemy Easier Solitude Skills Creatures Survival Empty Defeat Chosen Ran Take Me Domain Tunnels Corridors Incessant Nemesis

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.”

Knows Heart Long Stills Soul Self Lost Memories Chance Brain Gone Forever Empty Recovery Your Soul Shells Sense Of Self No Memory Heart And Brain Remus Lupin Dementors Empty Shell

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.”

Long Stills Book Country Play Would Be Fine Months Summer Empty Library Lakes Fine Things Looking Ahead

Book:Half Magic

Source: Half Magic

“In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.”

Long Important Book Problem Choices Force Space Plans Prove Empty Remains Library Collections Inherent Arrangements Shelves Vacuums Lodges

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me.”

Long Feelings Wanted Pain Found Realizing Boys Pieces Fit Findings Long Time Empty Sensations Puzzles Puzzle Piece

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.”

Source: The Devil's Waltz

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

World Long Has Beens Might Purpose Space Taken Clear Empty Filled Might Have Been Something Better Cold Mountain

Book:Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.”

Ifs Knows Persons Long Bigs Dies Sky Mountain Empty Climbs Climbing Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Backpacking

Book:A Killing Frost

Source: A Killing Frost

“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.”

“I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards.”

Way Long Dies House Lost Company Sun Shadow Empty My Way Why Not Afternoon Sunlight Moonlight Candlelight

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.”

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“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

“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”

Long Book Rooms Silence Wind Products Solitude Empty Chaos Endless Noise Pipe Corridors Upstairs Attics Tiles

Book:Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now?”

Long Imagine Summer Empty Glasses Ice Tea Delicious Iced Tea

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?”

Long Eye Remember Nice Air Mouths Empty Tongue Fixed Thrones Hateful Cattle Sweetheart Slits Nice To See You

Book:Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

“Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.”

“When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Two Fun Company Empty Okay Drinking Glasses Drunk Generosity Bottles

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.”

Giving May Long Sometimes Jesus Waiting Prayer Answers Empty Good Times

Author:J. C. Ryle

“For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.”

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