Empty Faces Quotes

#1. A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#2. There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy

Harry Chapin

#3. Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.

Robert Henri

#4. The faces were empty as plates, and nobody seemed to be breathing.

Sylvia Plath

#5. The flash lights irritated the women's eyes, but in the sudden glare their faces, so empty of expression when they had sex, at last came alive, and I saw two bluecollar housewives who had ditched their husbands and aspired to the most bourgeois of lives.

J.G. Ballard

#6. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#8. Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it's painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.

Stephen Richards

#9. War is just an effect, not a cause.

Marianne Williamson

#10. Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.

Janice Daugharty

#11. I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself ... Good evening!

Bill Hicks

#12. He believed that his superior intellect mattered more than his physical defects and saw no reason why he must defer to these fortunate young men with handsome faces and healthy bodies and empty heads.

Sharon Kay Penman

#13. Anna watched as Abel walked across the empty schoolyard, she wondered whether there was a limit to desolation or whether it grew endlessly, infinitely. Desolation with a hundred faces and more, desolation of a hundred different kinds and more, like the color blue.

Antonia Michaelis

#14. Honest to God, Story. The bullet didn't kill me, but the way you make me feel might.

Tessa Bailey

#15. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.

Stephen King

#16. It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

Louisa May Alcott

#17. Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

Peter Criss

#18. There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

Sara Sheridan

#19. When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

Rebecca West

#20. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. From ev'ry single window, I see your face. But when I reach a window there's an empty space.

Larry Conley

#22. A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Spiro T. Agnew

#23. The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

Frank Herbert

#24. When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Ashley Greene

#25. Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

Maeve Brennan