Best empty & waiting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.”

Mind Fighting Waiting Unique Expectations Empty Waiting For Something

Author:Rickson Gracie

“If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty - it's a bad situation. Honor doesn't come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK.”

Ifs Needs Home House Waiting Situation Break Honor Empty Bad Situations

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.”

World Certain Waiting Sea Ready Listening Mountain Empty Woods

Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

Ifs Needs Feels Looks Next Waiting Alive Week Streets Building Return Empty Tired Crowds Scales Loud Department Tigers Stadiums Geology Next Week Cannons Lsu Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice for me simply means that you are there now. Not waiting for the next moment, or not living in the moment before, but you're there now. And it's there now which can only be really breathed and lived if the mind is empty enough to receive it.”

Ifs Mind Mean Enough Moments Happens Spiritual Next Waiting Practice Empty Prepared Live In The Moment Spiritual Practice Empty Mind

Author:George Ogilvie

“Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.”

Writing Book Ends Waiting Empty Beach Dry Tides Shells

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.”

Knows Heart Soul Motivational Eye Waiting Knowing Sorrow Blessing Empty Filled Ill Fixed Prize Rejoice Weary Prayerful My Blessing Bombarded

Author:Shane Smith

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.”

Ifs Mind Heart Song Waiting Empty Longing Rings Endless Burning Impulse Serving Overwhelming Daring Bells Clinging Pilgrimage Shrines Audacious Perishing

Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

“Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.”

Heart Children Earth Spirit Mother Waiting Water Morning Creation Birth Empty Moved Filled Silent Breathing Cradle Like A Mother Breathing Life

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.”

Mind Heart Seems Joy Waiting Loss Grief Impossible Sorrow Empty Void Heart And Mind Fill The Void

Book:Wishing You Happiness

Source: Wishing You Happiness

“For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.”

Waiting White Empty Filled Excitement Sheer Canvas Roller Coaster Coasters Premieres

Author:Pam Brown

“An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.”

Stories Happens Waiting Rooms Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Charlotte Moss

“Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man's fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking!”

Men Universe Waiting Fate Written Flower Walking Pages Stones Empty Stupidity Footprint

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.”

Mind Spirit Waiting Listening All Things Empty Ears Recognition

Book:The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.”

Men Made Lying Waiting Sound Conversation Speech Empty Made It Fallen Futility Blight Wait For Me

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.”

Ends Matter Turns Next Waiting Week Car Months Tomorrow Empty Tired Clean Temptation Organized Bags Next Week Muffins

Author:Julie Morgenstern

“Trump walked into a media setting for which he was far better suited than the other contenders because he actually knows how to do reality TV and made them all look like pretenders. And I would argue that our news media has only gotten worse since Trump got in office. Trump is media crack. The ratings have never been higher. The reason CNN would run an hour of an empty podium waiting for him to show up during the campaign is because they were terrified if they turned away from Trump their rating would go down.”

Reason Reality Running Waiting Hours Office Empty Arguing Pretender

Author:Naomi Klein

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.”

Care Next Stars Waiting Empty Opposites Corners Spots

Book:The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Source: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

“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

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”

“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.”

“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'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.”

Ifs Knows Feels Littles Ideas Bits Waiting My Own One Thing Mom Little Bit Empty My Mom Hops Boss Dishwashers

Author:Deb Caletti

“All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.”

Giving Self Enough Waiting Rooms Too Much Doors Standing Empty Corners Sensations Empty Rooms

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“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

“So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.”

Source: How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)

“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”

“Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.”

Matter Hands Wanted Waiting Kissing Mouths Empty Skins Necks Over It Drag Cheeks

Book:Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

“She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.”

People Ends Stories Waiting Paper Pages Empty Setting Settings Pens

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.”

May Waiting Empty

Book:The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood

“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

“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”

“I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.”

Persons Enough Waiting Emotion Clear Empty Heavy Meaningless Doing Nothing

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank”

Feels Children Waiting Emotional Empty Filled Motivated Craving Tanks Language Of Love

Author:Gary Chapman

“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.”

“I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.”

Littles Waiting Empty Going Away Melancholy Weary Weariness

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“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

“You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.”

World Feels Waiting Silence Listening Empty Aging Notes Tension

Author:Annie Dillard

“Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now - and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.”

Thinking Knows Moments Courses Names Waiting Hurt Forget Know How Tomorrow Projects Empty Greed Arise Present Moment Forget It Richness Lottery Future Thinking Tomorrow Never Comes

Author:Rajneesh

“A deep inner emptiness is needed; that inner emptiness becomes the womb. So I`m not saying stop doing, stop action; I`m not saying that. I am saying that whatsoever you are doing, let it be just an outside activity. Inside become feminine, silent, doors opened, empty, waiting.”

Action Waiting Doors Needed Activity Empty Silent Emptiness Feminine Womb

Author:Rajneesh

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.”

Writing Firsts Mean Made Book Hard Stories Light Happens Next Waiting Hurt Morning Cold Empty Warm Every Morning Next Day Filling One You Love Someone You Love

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Might Turns Next Waiting Painting Band Paper Empty Sentences Observation Blank Canvas Portraits Sheets Masterpiece Arrivals Warrants Empty Canvas

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

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