Empty Houses quotes:

Send

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish. -- Christopher Marlowe
He could start a row in an empty house. -- Alex Ferguson
You could start an argument in an empty house. -- Jill Shalvis
There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house. -- Publilius Syrus
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. -- Pam Brown
Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched. -- H. W. L. Poonja
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. -- Jared Leto
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. -- Frederick Lenz
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. -- Annie Dillard
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. -- Gautama Buddha
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. -- Clifford D. Simak
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. -- Robert Kennedy
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. -- Barbara Pym
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. -- Hilary Mantel
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. -- C. S. Lewis
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. -- Philip K. Dick
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. -- Ian Mckellen
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles. -- Eden Robinson

Send