Best Empty Rooms Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.”

“I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.”

Ifs I Can Mother Wish Felt Rooms Benefits Empty Performances Performers Teresa Hospice Empty Rooms

Author:Bea Arthur

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

World Writing Persons Self Humanity Rooms Company Virtue Written Loneliness Solitude Conversation Empty Letters Assuming Prime Telephones My Thoughts Imaginative Immediacy Empty Rooms

Author:Vivian Gornick

“The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.”

Perfect Rooms Doors Internet Empty Free Speech Diversion Empty Rooms

Author:Clifford Stoll

“You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.”

Needs Able Actors Stuff Walks Rooms Empty Paint Backgrounds Bullshit Great Actors Markers Condescending Empty Rooms

Author:William Friedkin

“An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.”

Stories Happens Waiting Rooms Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Charlotte Moss

“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.”

Thinking Humans Certain Left Rooms Taken Wall Shadow Empty Mark Photograph Disappear Absence Etc Empty Rooms

Author:Mona Kuhn

“I like to have a drink or two, but I cut down on that. It was getting a little out of control. Two of the guys in the band don't even drink at all. We just riff off each other man. We're just so, so eye-to-eye with our sense of humour that we can just sit in an empty room and entertain ourselves for hours.”

Men Littles Two Eye Guy Hours Rooms Cutting Humour Drink Band Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Jordan Buckley

“I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Shows Rooms Half Empty Bases Sells What If Paranoia Half Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Ladyhawke

“I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.”

Play School Used Hours Space Rooms Party College High School Empty Piano Buddy Empty Rooms

Author:Rachael Yamagata

“As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us.”

School Space Rooms Building Sitting Built Empty Tables Library Clubs Dimensions Breakfast Gym Rehearsal Empty Rooms

Author:Judd Nelson

“I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.”

Said School America Girl Rooms Teach Laughing Taught Goes On Drama Empty England Screens Burning Candle Empty Rooms Candles Burning

Author:Quentin Crisp

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

Ifs Men Dream Left Rooms Talking Television Planets Tvs Communication Standing Empty Communicate Stranger Mysterious Stoves Empty Rooms

Book:America

Source: America

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

Heart Rooms Wise Empty Appreciation Emptiness Broken Heart Heart To Heart Home Is Where The Heart Is Great Hearts Empty Rooms Empty Heart Heart Full Of Love Full Hearts

Book:Voces reunidas

Source: Voces reunidas

“An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.”

Thinking Space Attitude Empty Drivers Optimist Curb Empty Space Empty Rooms Empty Souls

Author:Jules Renard

“Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”

Feels Rooms Audience Laughing Impossible Empty Silly Hysteria Invisible Monsters Empty Rooms

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”

“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”

Faces Rooms Flower Thousand Empty Desert Plastic Empty Rooms Plastic Flowers

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").”

Together House Rooms Modern Empty Furniture Empty Rooms Birthmarks

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.”

Giving Self Enough Waiting Rooms Too Much Doors Standing Empty Corners Sensations Empty Rooms

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks,gloves,to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy”

Rooms Deals Mines Safe Waste Empty Clean Suits Mess Staring Gas Mask Doom Messy Gloves Immaculate Where She Went Empty Rooms Gas Masks

Author:Gayle Forman

“Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?" I made a big show of glancing around the empty room. "I don't want to keep you from the mob of fans beating down your door." "Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it's not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.”

Want Needs Mean Made Said Helping Shows Bigs Might Guy Girl Social Rooms Break Impossible Doors Fans Car Red Empty Balls Holes Hey Expecting Breaking Down Knocking Interrupting Sorority Empty Rooms

Book:Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.”

People Thinking Needs Might Happens Beautiful Night Memories Rooms Laughing Seeing Expression Empty Idiot Criticize Autism Something Beautiful Empty Rooms Duvets

Author:Naoki Higashida

“Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.”

Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life

“[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.”

Rooms Behinds Empty Leaving Forgotten Breakup Candle Burned Break Up Discontent Empty Rooms

Author:Paolo Giordano

“Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?”

“I play in a lot of empty rooms.”

Play Rooms Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Colin Hay

“Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.”

People Mind Shows Young Rooms Doors Anxiety Empty Connections Constant Details Separation Isolated Vacuums Showing Off Bedtime Closed Doors Empty Rooms

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.”

Self Literature House Voice Rooms Worst Cry Ego Empty Poetic Sense Of Place Empty Rooms

Author:William Kennedy

“Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered. It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.”

“This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.”

Ends Stories White Rooms Silence Bed Empty Shock Hospitals Chests Electric Crash Carts Crisps Sirens Empty Rooms Electric Shock

Book:Phoning Home: Essays

Source: Phoning Home: Essays

“When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.”

Mind Rooms Clear Empty Empty Rooms Clear Day

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.”

Thinking Feels Feelings Rooms Female Empty Connections Radio Circles Female Friends Empty Rooms

Author:Anna Quindlen

“If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.”

Ifs World Heart Said Light Used Black Rooms Happened Grew Mountain Mouths Empty Shoulders Range Sunday Massive Bells Bye Good Bye Heart Attack Parrots Hera Mountain Ranges Empty Rooms

Author:Nick Flynn