Best empty & wall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.”

Faces Turns Prayer Taken Sky Wall Empty Emptiness Detachment Numbness Airy

Book:The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

Source: The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.”

I Can Imagination Imagine Wall Empty Because I Can

Book:Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!”

I Can Space Rooms Wall Empty

Author:Semir Zeki

“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.”

Knows Needs Looks Book Bigs Space Imagine Wall Pages Empty Mirrors Boxes Over You Thick Elegant

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.”

Wells Real Hands Light Space Known Wall Shadow Empty Well Known Empty Space Points Of Light

Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.”

Doe Has Beens Facts Body Christian Jesus Cases Doors Wall Worship News Empty Glasses Glorious Print Thank God Tombs Jerusalem Tabloids Nazareth

Author:Peter Marshall

“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

“What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.”

Mind Stills Rooms Position Wall Quiet Sitting Empty Wicked Continuing Pillow Quiet Room

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?”

“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

“For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.”

“Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.”

May Causes My Own Wall Beats Gun Empty Bullets

Author:Clint Smith

“Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.”

People Real Values Wall Empty Unnecessary Economist Pretense Mortgage

Author:Michael Hudson

“I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Should Streets Building Wall Empty Hey Thieves Housing Squatters

Author:Al Lewis

“My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.”

Writing Rich Strange Painting Wall Empty Opposites Juicy

Author:Tom Robbins

“But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.”

Broken Wall Promise Empty Unfinished Wigs Broken Promises Cupboards

Book:The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.”

“Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.”

Feels Different Matter Night Black Strange Wall Horror Empty Mysterious Immense Brushes Dense Roaming Prowling

Book:The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror

Source: The diary of a madman, and other tales of horror

“We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.”

Trying Important Order Space Doors Wall Honor Worship Solutions Window Empty Decent Empty Space Zahir

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!”

Humans Hurt Wall Despair Angel Empty It Hurts Fury Nevermore

Book:Maximum Ride: Nevermore

Source: Maximum Ride: Nevermore

“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”

“Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.”

Looks Heart Whole Wisdom Light Rooms Wall Window Empty Holes Emptiness Taoism Faculty

Author:Zhuangzi

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.”

Home Form House Space Doors Design Wall Window Empty Essence Thirty Wheels Spokes Pot Clay Space Between Empty Space Hub Windows And Doors

Author:Laozi

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

Thinking Men Littles Facts Rooms Mistake Brain Wall Highest Empty Importance Useless You Choose Furniture Scarlet Attics Study In Scarlet

Book:A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

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