Empty Quotes

Welcome to Empty Quotes, where words hold the power to resonate with our deepest emotions and thoughts. Quotes have the unique ability to encapsulate complex feelings, experiences, and ideas in just a few succinct words, serving as beacons of inspiration, motivation, and reflection in our lives. Within these pages, you’ll discover a treasure trove of quotes waiting to be explored, each one a tiny universe of wisdom and insight waiting to be unlocked.

Empty Quotes is a sanctuary for those seeking solace, encouragement, or simply a moment of contemplation. Whether you’re navigating through life’s challenges, celebrating its triumphs, or simply searching for a spark of inspiration, you’ll find a diverse array of quotes here to accompany you on your journey. From timeless classics to modern insights, from renowned philosophers to anonymous voices, our collection spans the breadth of human experience, offering something for everyone.

As you explore Empty Quotes, feel free to unleash your creativity. Use these quotes to adorn your social media posts, decorate your living space, or infuse your projects with a touch of literary magic. The possibilities are endless, and the choice is yours. So without further ado, dive into the world of Empty Quotes and let the words therein ignite your imagination, stir your soul, and illuminate your path.

I talk to God but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Charles Spurgeon

Honor is but an empty bubble. John Dryden

The result is an empty thing. The result is I’m happy for the next two days because I get less criticism and more time to improve my team. But what satisfies me the most in my job is to feel emotions, the way we play. Pep Guardiola

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale

To walk into the hall of mirrors of Versailles as Louis XIV and deliver a monologue on your own in an empty hall of mirrors is like no other experience. George Blagden

I think about that ’empty’ space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I’ve had to learn that over the years – because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. Meredith Monk

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head? Billy Connolly

Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that – what I learnt is that it wasn’t for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that. Daniel Ek

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. Ellen Goodman

An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures. Wassily Kandinsky

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them. Lawrence M. Krauss

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time. Roy H. Williams

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen. Jim Mattis

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. Richard Dawkins

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. Benjamin Whichcote

The vast numbers of people who suffer some kind of mental illness under capitalism can either think, ‘there is some failing with me, if only I could fit into this system better, if only I were working harder, if only I could enjoy these empty pleasures more, then things would be OK’ or ‘the problem is with the system that is making me ill.’ Mark Fisher

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. Martin Farquhar Tupper

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs – when I was 17 – that I realized I was talking through an empty skull… I wasn’t thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. Allen Ginsberg

When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime – and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store. Lily Tomlin

Loads of people talk about meditation and what it can do for your anxiety and I just really struggle to do traditional meditation. When they say, ‘Lay still and empty your brain,’ the minute I lay still, is the minute I think about everything that’s going on. Stacey Solomon

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. Peggy Noonan

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You’re faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage. Julia Cameron

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. Pam Brown

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. Ernest Hemingway

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. Betty Friedan

A fact is like a sack – it won’t stand up if it’s empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. Luigi Pirandello

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. Morihei Ueshiba

I believe in empty spaces; they’re the most wonderful thing. Anselm Kiefer

The last couple of years I’ve been on an empty tank. And that’s gotta change. Kenny Chesney

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It’s like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you’re leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening. Kathleen Troia McFarland

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive. George W. Bush

Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M. Joyce Brothers

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. William Butler Yeats

In the morning, I know everyone has two things: an empty stomach and a fresh brain. Paul Gilbert

I think talk is cheap – when I hear people say what they’d like to happen, I think it’s empty. Diego Simeone

The first thing I do when I wake up is cardio on an empty stomach. I’ll just drink water, or maybe I’ll have a black coffee with no sugar, and I’ll do about 25 minutes of cardio, six days a week. Jinder Mahal

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Iris Murdoch

An empty canvas is full. Robert Rauschenberg

My life is actually empty, so I feel like I’m lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside. Sulli

Erudition – dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. Ambrose Bierce

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive. Bryant H. McGill

If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can’t create. You have to keep your head empty. That’s why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk. Yoko Ono

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train. Dwayne Johnson

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty. Drake

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table? Brad Thor

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged. Peter Brook

We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it. Chamath Palihapitiya

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. David Viscott

Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent. But perhaps tomorrow we’ll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit. Liu Cixin

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. Walter Scott

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. George Bernard Shaw

I’ll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don’t, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that’s nowhere land. Gary Busey

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. Eric Hoffer

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. Immanuel Kant

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. David Rockefeller

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. Mason Cooley

My witness is the empty sky. Jack Kerouac

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. Homer

Our life is full of empty space. Umberto Eco

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell. Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. Janeane Garofalo

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being. Jiddu Krishnamurti

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It’s a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there. Graham Hawkes

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. Dee Hock

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. Saint Augustine

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness. M. Scott Peck

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body. Saadi

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. John Cage

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. Lord Byron

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values. Jerry Springer

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. Woodrow Wilson

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty. Eddie Money

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. Plato

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. Meister Eckhart

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. Anna Freud

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. Moshe Sharett

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. Antonio Porchia

I am representing here – the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that’s why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder. Kailash Satyarthi

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. Dwight L. Moody

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. Arthur Conan Doyle

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? Michelangelo

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. Jeanne Moreau

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm Forbes

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside. Rachel Campos-Duffy

Rock is so much fun. That’s what it’s all about – filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. Jimi Hendrix

My heart felt empty, and I tried to fill the void with food. However, instead of feeling better, I became anxious and felt like I was lacking. IU

Don’t die old, die empty. That’s the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard. Myles Munroe

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. Pedro Almodovar

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief ‘s face. Juvenal

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare

It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach. Michael Bloomberg

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Stephen Hawking

Anton Usov
Anton Usov
I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.
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