In Disappear It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. – Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Holly Golightly.
To all mankind – may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth. – Garth Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Dagger of the Mind’.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. – Hilaire Belloc
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we’re making progress; but Huey’s chair’s empty. – H. Rap Brown
The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. – Janeane Garofalo
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won’t have a hydrant beside it. – Jules Renard
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with. – Antonio Porchia
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. – Boris Johnson
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. – Al Smith
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. – Aneurin Bevan
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. – Eric Hoffer
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. – Charles Simic