Best empty & past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.”

Firsts Past Doors Building Broken Proud Window Empty Plates Renewal New Day Gleam Tiles Each New Day

Book:I explain a few things: selected poems

Source: I explain a few things: selected poems

“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.”

“In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.”

Sometimes Stories Past Night Streets Empty Mysterious Los Angeles Rays Bradbury

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.”

Past Empty Heavy Halls Smokers Ashtrays

Author:David Lange

“The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.”

Feels May Shows Home Past Empty Surface Harvest Fascination Goodwill Supper

Book:The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

“You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.”

Moments Past Life Is Conscious Empty Infinite Caught Currents Links Changing Your Life Ripple

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!”

Past Paper Shadow Empty Drawing

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.”

Trying Mind States Reality Past Results Findings Eternal Capable Empty Ultimate Focused New Things Timeless Gathering Living On Creativeness Ultimate Reality

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!”

Giving Philosophy Moments Past Remember Joy Enjoy Water Pleasure Grace Balance Drink Rain Empty Stranger Settling Little Things Remembering The Past Little Things In Life

Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”

People Love Feels Trying Past Space Walks Deserve Empty Emptiness Gaps Detachment Empty Space Numbness Deserve Love

Author:Jon Krakauer

“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

“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”

Thinking Earth America Past Empty Clean Forgotten Ruins Berlin

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”

People Ifs Thinking Helping Past Loses Consequence Empty Weight Cake Throwing Plates Lose Weight Throwing Away

Author:Timothy B. Tyson

“And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Made Past Waiting Cold Mass Empty Suicide Commit Reasoning Gray Shells Parrots Empty Shell

Author:Sylvia Plath

“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?”

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.”

“She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.”

Feels Heart Past Felt Middle Broken Empty Broken Heart Cried Absent Outlines Heart Felt

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden”

Men World Doe Hands Age Past Artist Grows Rich Progress Feet Poet Men And Women Empty Endless Evolve Preserves Doomed Repetition Masterpiece Forbidden Static Chained Protocol Hands And Feet

Author:Catherine Fisher

“Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring; Take me places that make more sense.”

Needs Feels Heart Made Real Soul Play Past Walks Brain Silence Empty Breathing Take Me Steel Soar Ache Need You Tense Babe I Need You

Author:Melina Marchetta

“I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.”

Feels Heart Stills Dream Hands Light Past Fall Waiting Memories Mines Months My Heart Bed Empty Essence Lips Breathing Heat Realistic Permission Sheets Veins Gave Up Adrenaline

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“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.”

“Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.”

Giving Inspiration Past Faith Morning Shapes Capacity Empty Christian Inspirational Giving Back Polish Chalice

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.”

Ifs Persons Past Fall Space Events Empty Significant Floats Continuity Empty Space Expanse Discontinuity

Book:Open City: A Novel

Source: Open City: A Novel

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