Empty Quotes

My witness is the empty sky. (Jack Kerouac)
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. View quote
William Shakespeare
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. View quote
Bruce Lee
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? View quote
Richard Brautigan
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. View quote
Eric Hoffer
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion. View quote
Democritus
I talk to God but the sky is empty. (Sylvia Plath)
Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. View quote
George Carlin
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. View quote
Jack Kerouac
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. View quote
John Cage
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. View quote
William Cobbett
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. View quote
Woody Allen
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. View quote
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. (William Butler Yeats)
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. View quote
Ellen Goodman
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. View quote
Antonio Porchia
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. View quote
Antonio Porchia