Empty House Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
— Pam Brown
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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…
— Annie Dillard
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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…
— Annie Dillard
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To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
— Publilius Syrus
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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…
— Gautama Buddha
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He could start a row in an empty house.
— Alex Ferguson
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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…
— Trevor Nisbett
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You could start an argument in an empty house.
— Jill Shalvis
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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…
— Robert Kennedy
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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…
— Frederick Lenz
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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…
— Ian Mckellen
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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…
— Jared Leto
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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…
— Philip K. Dick
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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…
— Barbara Pym
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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…
— Virginia Woolf
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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…
— Sylvia Plath
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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…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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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…
— C.S. Lewis
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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…
— Clifford D. Simak
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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…
— Hilary Mantel
Who Wrote These Empty House Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Empty House Quotes as follows: