Top 9 Empty Places Quotes

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Love, Respect, Empty Places

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.2002, ReadHowYouWant.com

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Georg Simmel

Empty Places, Given, Existence

Georg Simmel (2015). “The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms”, p.204, University of Chicago Press

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Neil Gaiman

Art, Empty Places, Sometimes

Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.

George R. R. Martin

Heart, Empty Places, Catelyn Stark

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.

Neil Gaiman

Art, Knowing, Empty Places

"The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

John C. Wright

Men, Challenges, Empty Places

John C. Wright (2012). “The Hermetic Millennia”, p.116, Macmillan

when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

Jodi Picoult

Fall, Empty Places, Teeth

Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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.

Gail Collins

Texas, People, Empty Places

"Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.