#empty

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing. ↗

— Judith Wright

#barely #creative #deeply #empty #engaged

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bed #complete #empty #empty stomach #goes

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#empty #huey #lies #making #ourselves

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#bear #become #bigger #boy #empty

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

— Anna Freud

#empty #empty space #filled #forest #only

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

My witness is the empty sky. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#sky #witness

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

— Jeanne Moreau

#embrace #empty #go #out #setting

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

— Iris Murdoch

#digest #eating #empty #ignorant #men

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

#blind #cannot #clothed #empty #fact