Quotes of: Empties Keyword

The Prodigal Dark morning rain Meant to fall On a prison and a schoolyard, Falling meanwhile On my mother and her old dog. How slow she shuffles now In my father’s Sunday shoes. The dog by her side Trembling with each step As he tries to keep up. I...

New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

The jail is closed day and night and always full; temples are always open and still empty.

Chinese

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.

Portuguese

The night seemed long. Wilbur's stomach was empty and his mind was full. And when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it's always hard to sleep.

Charlotte's Web

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

Good Morning, Midnight

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

She inhabited a world from which I was excluded, and she had left me in an immense empty space.

In Love

Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.

The Sun Will Still Shine Tomorrow

I bought an empty safe, and I keep it empty, because safety doesn’t exist, so my safes are full of their potential.

This Book Has No Title

I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.

Under Cover

Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

J.W. Lord

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

Tom Hodgkinson

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

Gautama Buddha

I have lived my life growing up with emptiness in hope that I would someday find you. That emptiness is now a broken Heart

Love

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Whenever I work hard for other people, I always sleep on an empty stomach.

Bantu

An empty sack can't stand up; a full sack cannot bend.

Virgin Islander

I just remembered a time when to warm up my spirit I prayed: movement is spirit. Prayer was a means of mutely and hidden from others reaching myself. When I prayed I achieved an emptiness of soul - and that emptiness is all I can ever have. Besides t...

The Hour of the Star

If a man crosses a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, Even though he be bad tempered man He will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat, He will shout at him to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, he will shout ...

Zhuangzi

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

The Street of Crocodiles