“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.
Voces (1943)
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 109
General Quotes
“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.
Voces (1943)
“Empty pockets never held anyone back…it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
"Enthusiasm makes the difference" (2003), p. 58
“The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
In The Seven Woods http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1518/ <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904) <br class="br">Context: I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods<br>Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees<br>Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away<br>The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness<br>That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile<br>Tara uprooted, and new commonness<br>Upon the throne and crying about the streets<br>And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,<br>Because it is alone of all things happy.<br>I am contented, for I know that Quiet<br>Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart<br>Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,<br>Who but awaits His house to shoot, still hands<br>A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.
“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
Gary Snyder (1930) American poet
“All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love.”
Joseph Pisani (1971) American artist and photographer
As quoted on the artist's Twitter Feed, March 16, 2013 https://twitter.com/josephpisaniart/status/312902833747943424
“nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.”
Erik Satie (1866–1925) French composer and pianist
about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair
General quotes
“I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.”
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Vol. V, par. 265
Collected Papers (1931-1958)