Empty

Famous quotes containing the word empty:

“O I am miserable:
You cherished me, my mother,
But even you desert me.
I am sent to an empty place.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 6:7.

Jesus.

“We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare;
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)