Empty Life Quotes

• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

  Nicole Kidman

  Love Is, Thinking, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 07, 2017

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• Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Hands, Brain

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• He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

  Percy Jewett Burrell

  Sympathy, Inspirational Life, Helping Others

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• There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

  Byron Katie

  Wind, Safety, Priorities

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2012

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• A life without impact and contribution is a very empty life, so use your life to make the world better.

  Robin Sharma

  Impact, Use, World

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 15, 2015

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• I certainly won't have an empty life!

  Indira Gandhi

  Empty

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

  Eric Hoffer

  Disappointment, Achievement, Details

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

  Rick Warren

  Simple, Life Is, Pretentious

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

  David Sedaris

  People, Littles, Way

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• To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

  Eunhyuk

  Soccer, Would Be, Mindless

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  Betty Ford

  Golf, Swimming, People

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• She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.

  John Cheever

  Night, Coffins, World

  John Cheever (2010). “Collected Stories”, p.97, Random House

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• Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.

  Alexander Herzen

  Strong, Men, Civilization

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• I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

  Larry David

  Years, Generations, Heritage

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.

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• All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Son, Dull

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• Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

  Louise Erdrich

  Husband, Simple, Fire

  Louise Erdrich (2012). “The Antelope Wife: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

  Alan Watts

  Beautiful, Depressing, Ocean

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself... Good evening!

  Bill Hicks

  Tired, Thinking, Faces

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• A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.

  Doug Larson

  Clean, Garage, Basements

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• Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Cities, Dwelling

  "Saroyan's Literary Quarantine" by Peter H. King, in The Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1997.

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• You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

  Stacie Orrico

  Artist, Accountability, Leaving

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