Best Empty Houses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.”

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Author:Ian Mckellen

“Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.”

House Women Empty Lone Empty Houses

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)

“Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.”

Remember Suffering House Peace Imagination Empty Remains Thieves Empty Houses

Book:The Truth Is

Source: The Truth Is

“There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.”

House Benefits Empty Attacking Empty Houses

Book:Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Source: Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.”

May Asks Fool Tonight Empty Houses

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.”

“As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.”

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Author:Sally Brampton

“I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.”

People Used Found House Rooms Break Empty Comforting Empty Houses

Author:Jared Leto

“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.”

Healing Creation Witness Empty Houses Abet

Author:Annie Dillard

“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Happiness Rooms Laughing Air Laughter Bird Filled Feathers Small Rooms Empty Houses

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.”

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Author:Philip K. Dick

“Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.”

People Ifs House Doors Empty Coming Back Empty Houses

Author:Barbara Pym

“One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.”

Inspirational Home House Cat Empty Coming Home Feline Empty Houses Changes Coming

Book:Kittens!

Source: Kittens!

“Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.”

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?”

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Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”

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Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.”

Earth Joy House Sadness Empty Triumph Empty Houses

Book:City

Source: City

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.”

Inspirational May Happiness Tonight Empty Houses

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

Grief Sky Spread Absence Grieving Infant Grief Observed Empty Houses Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.”

Stills House Prayer Silence Gone Empty Notes Ghost Loud Curse Owners Strings Bowls Scent Petals Empty Houses

Author:Hilary Mantel

“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.”

“We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.”

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Author:Annie Dillard

“To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.”

House Empty Debate Beer Disputes Drunkards Empty Houses

Author:Publilius Syrus

“How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.”

World Way Feels Mind Looks Heart Joy Fall House Meditation Quiet Empty Rising Empty Houses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“He could start a row in an empty house.”

Inspirational House Empty Manchester United Empty Houses

Author:Alex Ferguson

“If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.”

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Author:Trevor Nisbett

“We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.”

People Consciousness Praise Empty Houses Abet

Author:Annie Dillard

“You could start an argument in an empty house.”

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Book:Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels

Source: Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels

“Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.”

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Author:Robert Kennedy

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