Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Pirates do not use to set upon poor empty vessels; and beggars need not fear the thief. Those that have most of God, and are most rich in grace – shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about “the old unscientific days”. The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.

We for a certainty are not the first
Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled
Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed
Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

It is more a mentality than the actual places people live, as Jefferson and Hamilton would argue about – city versus country. For example, someone could have an empty place mentality yet be living in a condo in Boca Raton.

Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they’re actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they’re in a remote location.

Strength is an empty shell.

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father

The best way to imagine how big the emptiness of nature is, is to jam it with humanity

Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach

But “love” is the most empty and overused word in the English language after “brilliant.

Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.

No place in life is sadder than an empty bed.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

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

Life ain’t never empty, it’s full of love and pain.

Do you suffer when you write? I don’t at all. Suffer like a bastard when don’t write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher

Some knowledge is too heavy…you cannot bear it…your Father will carry it until you are able.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It’s time we gave this some thought.

Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace, but the opposite of living is only not living, and the stars do not care.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it’s empty.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

One can no more set fire to the sea,
than convince people of the dangers of happiness – And yet, we know that though the smallest shock is fatal
to the filled up bottle, that shock will not break
the empty one.

Empty orators and silent scholars
died without having understood Being and non-Being.
Ignorants, my brothers, let us continue tasting
the juice of the grape attentively and let
the authorities satisfy themselves
with dry raisins.

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

Mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.