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Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. -- W. H. Auden
He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race. -- Charles Wesley
I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops. -- Bob Hoskins
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken. -- David Mitchell
One can be emptied out and be filled up. -- Isabelle Adjani
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. -- Victor Hugo
The cup was emptied and would never be filled again. -- Hermann Hesse
You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied. -- Martin Walser
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I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life. -- Hilda Doolittle
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself. -- Thomas Brooks
A coward's gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice. -- T.F. Hodge
I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not. -- Elizabeth Scott
Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness. -- David Foster Wallace
Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied. -- Gregory Galloway
Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago. -- David Feherty
Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content. -- Thomas Merton
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. -- Hannah Arendt
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. -- Saint Augustine
To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again. -- Ilchi Lee
Before there can be fullness there must be emptiness. Before God can fill us with Himself we must first be emptied of ourselves. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open. -- Marissa Meyer
People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. -- Frank Herbert
How she still thought of Max every day and it was like someone had emptied her lungs of air, and she would catch at her heart, afraid she was dying. -- Cassandra Clare
It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse. -- Asti Hustvedt
A soul could be resurrected and re-born to another body, its memories restored, but once the house it belonged to had been emptied, they could no longer call it home."~Taznikos Abyssos -- Yelle Hughes
The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things. -- Anne Bancroft
You emptied the top rack of the dishwasher but not the bottom, so the clean dishes have gotten all mixed up with the dirty ones - and now you want to have sex? -- Lorrie Moore
Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out. -- Laurie Graham
[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. -- Annie Oakley
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote -- Truman Capote

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