Empty Houses Quotes

• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  Pam Brown

  Inspirational, Home, Cat

  Pam Brown (1997). “Kittens!”, Helen Exley Gift Books

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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 house.

  Jared Leto

  People, House, Comforting

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• 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

  People, Silence, House

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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 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

  Home, Mean, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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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 go, there you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, House

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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 was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Sadness, House, Joy

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “City”, p.207, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Peace, Imagination, House

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.361, Weiser Books

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• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Grieving, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  House, Benefits, Empty

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.391, Kodansha International

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Women, House, Empty

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1003, Delphi Classics

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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

  Doors, People, House

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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 strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Sweet, Tired

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.3, Anchor

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• We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

  Annie Dillard

  Healing, Abet, Creation

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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 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

  Prayer, Silence, House

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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 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

  Dog, Kids, Men

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• I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

  Sylvia Plath

  Tonight, May, Fool

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.8, Anchor

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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 world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Heart, House

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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 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

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• You could start an argument in an empty house.

  Jill Shalvis

  House, Argument, Funny Redneck

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 1: Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Head Over Heels”, p.217, Hachette UK

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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 play to an empty house.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Play, House

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• Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Laughter, Air

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Night, Light, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.343, Wordsworth Editions

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• I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Happiness, Tonight

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.8, Anchor

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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 notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Beach, Our Generation

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