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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
Lone women, like to empty houses, perish. -- Christopher Marlowe
I've never had an empty house. Ever. -- Meredith Monk
He could start a row in an empty house. -- Alex Ferguson
No actor wants to play to an empty house. -- Ian Mckellen
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
The lies we tell ourselves are the ghosts that haunt the empty house of midnight. -- Gregory David Roberts
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
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence. -- 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. -- 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
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
Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house. -- James Salter
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
I don't feel I'm fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before the audience arrives and look out to this vast empty house. There's something therapeutic about taking in the ring where you'll perform. -- Danielle de Niese
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
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
I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd. -- Johnny Giles
No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is? -- Daisy Whitney
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House. -- Diane Cilento
Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Keep an extra roll of toilet paper squirreled away. Keep your phone charged. -- Gretchen Rubin
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. -- Hunter Tylo
I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years. -- Penelope Lively
Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience. -- Arnon Goldfinger
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with. -- Graham Norton
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. -- Ellen Goodman
I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd -- Johnny Giles
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots. -- Ovid
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. -- Mark Twain
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room. -- Per Petterson
I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach. -- Carole Landis
The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door. -- Dag Hammarskjold
You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread. -- Rob Bell

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