Empty Quotes

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

Benjamin Franklin

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

Unknown

We are missing something. Our youth today is empty. No longer do the children dream and believe they can change the world. Apathy has destroyed the beautiful idealism of our youth. The intricate illusions and fearless aspirations. The gleam in a child's eye. God help us. All hope is truly lost.

Kate Miller

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

Woody Allen

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.

Bodhidharma

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Kenneth Hildebrand

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer

Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.

Karen Savage and Patricia Adams

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm S. Forbes

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Leo Tolstoy

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Benjamin Franklin

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Charles Peguy

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

Joss Whedon

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck