#empty

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#emotions #emptiness #empty #fathomless #jackson-pearce

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. ↗

— Lee Child

#desks #email #empty #i #internet

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

#bodies #change #climate #customs #empty

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#any #before #cigar #easy #empty

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#because #breaking #elvis #empty #everybody

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ↗

— Democritus

#else #empty #empty space #everything #except

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

#brain #choose #consider #empty #furniture

Honor is but an empty bubble. ↗

— John Dryden

#empty #honor

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#breakdown #course #daily #daily life #empty

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty. ↗

— Marie Trintignant

#empty #fulfills #theatre #whereas