Chairs Quote by Per Petterson Download Open image “A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.” — Per Petterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chairs Dead dog Dog Empty House Quiet Rooms
The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Did you notice my dog? He's never been in this room before. He didn't know what was inside. He knew nothing except that his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting. — Troy Dumais Copy Share Image
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall. — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
“I'm a dog, and because you humans are much less rational beasts than I, you're telling yourselves, 'Dogs don't talk.' Nethertheless, you seem to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.' — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“But life had shifted its weight from one point to another, from one leg to the other, like a silent giant in the vast… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did.… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“I distinctly heard the blackbird from the top of a spruce tree, and clear as glass I heard the lark high up and several… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“It is important not to be careless about supper when you are alone. It is easily done, boring as it is to cook for… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“We ran back, he first and I following him, between the beds and downstairs, and we picked up an armful of wood from the… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“What I liked was the train ride. It took an hour and that was enough for me to be able to lean backwards against… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“...everything felt fine at that moment; the suit was fine, and the twon was fine to walk in, along the cobblestone street, and we… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted… — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er. — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
