Top 96 Empty House Quotes
#1. There is hardly anything at all. His life is suddenly a large, empty house, with each vacant room waiting to be furnished. His made-up wife. His invented father. His pretend childhood. He wonders if it is possible to unlie yourself.
Dan Chaon
#2. Why don't you write my family in Italy," she said, "This must be a right empty house without the touch of a woman.
C.B. Overdorf
#3. The truth of himself was a lonely boy in an empty house, waiting for someone to knock on his bedroom door and ask if he was okay.
Dennis Lehane
#4. Tonight had taught her one thing. She was tired of being alone. She was tired of working so hard and then coming home to an empty house with no one to share her day with.
Kathleen Brooks
#5. 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
#6. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
Roald Dahl
#9. There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#10. Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.
V.J. Campilan
#11. You could start an argument in an empty house.
Jill Shalvis
#12. You can't burgulate a forgotten, empty house, he said, horrified at my stupidity.
Denis Johnson
#13. Memories drifting and piling up quietly, like letters on the doormat of an empty house.
Lucy Wood
#14. To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
Publilius Syrus
#15. It was all there in that little disc-London, Athens, Jerusalem, Shakespeare. There everyone had lived and everything had happened; and there, presumably, his pack was still lying in the porch of an empty house near Sterk.
C.S. Lewis
#16. when the end came and there was initial chaos and rampant starvation, people learned all too well that you could not rely on stuff. You needed friends. A dead phone provided no companionship; an empty house no comfort. The latest fashions provided no food, but you could always eat a close friend.
Benjamin Wallace
#17. One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown
#18. I come home to an empty house and fill the sink with water. The pigeons above the window are clucking. I let the dishes slip under the bubbles and I close my eyes. I listen to the perfect, whole, round sounds of glass against porcelain under water.
Eula Biss
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. The traveller in the read-brown clothes that he wears that dust may not show upon him, the girl searching in her bed for the petals fallen from the wreath of her royal lover, the servant or the bride awaiting the master's home-coming in the empty house, are images of the heart turning to God.
Rabindranath Tagore
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. You're not the only one's been lonely, Emme, hoping the right one will come along so you don't go home to an empty house and climb into an empty bed.
Kristen Ashley
#27. An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal.
Daphne Du Maurier
#28. 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
#29. There was a sadness just beneath the surface of his pleasant expression. It drifted across his face like a ghost moving through the vacant rooms of an empty house.
M. Leighton
#30. Oh, I would like to live in an empty house, with vines for walls, and a carpet of grass. No planks, no plastic, no fiberglass.
Mary Oliver
#31. Jack, we gotta chance to make a difference in their lives. They need us. How can we go back to that big empty house knowing that these kids got no place to call home?
Randolph Randy Camp
#32. Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a terrifying sense of freedom and no energy or innocence left to enjoy it.
Leah Reader
#34. 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
#35. We are here to abet creation and to witness it, to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but we notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.
Annie Dillard
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.
China Mieville
#39. [Grief is pain internalized, abscess of the soul. Anger is pain as energy, sudden explosion.] This one would be for Lotto. "This will be fun," she said aloud to the empty house.
Lauren Groff
#40. Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital.
Donna Tartt
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,
Leave a house empty, it rots.
Ovid
#44. Your house is lovely," I say, even though it isn't. It's old; it could use a good cleaning. But the things inside it are lovely.
"It's empty now. All my things sold up. Can't take it with you, you know."
"You mean when you die?" I whisper.
He glares at me. "No. I mean to the nursing home.
Jenny Han
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Why do I have the compulsion to caution you strenuously against going up those stairs, Windham? Perhaps you'll be swarmed by bats or set upon by little ghoulies with crossbows." "Oh, for God's sake, what could be hiding in an empty old carriage house?" ***
Grace Burrowes
#49. Well,' Lydia said, 'I guess Armageddon's back on.'
Eliot fought back a grin.
'You're smiling?', Lydia said. She looked at her car and at their house and down the empty street. 'That's totally inappropriate.
D.L.E. Roger
#50. I glance at the house, dark and empty. "Am I my sister's keeper?" I say. Then I grin at her. "If you feel like waiting, you can come up and see my etchings.
Jodi Picoult
#51. The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Dag Hammarskjold
#52. the mind poet stays in the house / the house is empty and it has no walls / the poem is seen from all sides / everywhere / at once.
Gary Snyder
#53. And, of course, afterwards
one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before
we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
Agatha Christie
#54. Free-ranging single men are like a house that has been empty too long. There must be something fishy about the house, the woman thinks. Up for sale for six months and it's still vacant.
Herman Koch
#55. If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty - it's a bad situation. Honor doesn't come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK.
Jonathan Gottschall
#56. As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.
Daphne Du Maurier
#57. Boxes of records made me think that LPs should be outlawed or at least limited to five per person, and I soon came to despise the type who packs even her empty shampoo bottles, figuring she'll sort things out and throw them away once she's settled into her new place.
David Sedaris
#58. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash.
(Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)
Stephen Colbert
#59. I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.
Sarah Dessen
#60. 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
#61. The first time I walked through the spacious house, I didn't see possibility or a new start. I saw a big, empty space. These rooms looked like all I did not have, every room a challenge, rather than an opportunity.
Jill Talbot
#63. You Sure this is it?" I said. "It looks empty."
"Empty? No way, there's loads of shit in there," worm replied
Ransom Riggs
#64. A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
Per Petterson
#65. I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
Carole Landis
#66. 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
#67. 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
#69. They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").
Miranda July
#70. 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
#71. The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
Mark Twain
#72. God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.
Rajneesh
#73. Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
Virginia Woolf
#74. Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
#75. 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
#76. Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
Edith Wharton
#77. Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
Barbara Kingsolver
#78. The darkness is not so empty as you imagine. Think of attending a party at night, in a house brightly lit with candles. If we happen to glance out the window, we cannot see into the darkness or know what lies outside. Yet any out there in the dark can see inside to us.
Galen Beckett
#79. Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would fracture. Years went by and with each fracture; I lost a piece of my soul until I became lost and empty inside.
J.D. Stroube
#80. Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold.
Eric Wilson
#81. John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner.
Louisa May Alcott
#82. DEAD FLIES ON THE SILLS OF sunny windows, weeds along the pathway, the kitchen empty. The house was melancholy, deceiving; it was like a cathedral where, amid the serenity, something is false, the saints are made of florist's wax, the organ has been gutted.
James Salter
#83. Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.
Misty Copeland
#84. You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house.
Mark Anthony Jarman
#85. When I come crawling home, bleeding and filthy and exhausted, the house is dark and empty.
Ilona Andrews
#86. Ruby once told Margaret that Ben was an accident, but it wasn't true. The house just felt empty without a baby in it. Good God, why do women have such feelings: and worse, having them, why do they then act upon them?
Fay Weldon
#87. Nakata's empty inside ... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most
Haruki Murakami
#88. It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity so that you could not imagine that ever again that house would echo with talk and resound with laughter.
W. Somerset Maugham
#89. The furtive closing of a door is a sound the wind can make a dozen times in an hour. A flow of damp air from the lake can make any house feel empty. Such currents pull one's dreams after them, and one's own dread is always mirrored upon the dread that inheres in things.
Marilynne Robinson
#90. Empty space eventually fills up with something. A void, cultivated in the aftermath of misfortune, begins to attract the wrong kind of attention. Marco knew it was time to leave when disagreeable spirits started roaming freely through the house, as if they owned the place.
Rahma Krambo
#91. Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
Mitch Albom
#92. The house echoed, empty. Mathilde had been liberated. She had nothing to worry about now.
Lauren Groff
#93. Morning sun fills the house, creamy as lemon chiffon, lighting the insides of cupboards and empty closets and clean, bare floors.
Celeste Ng
#94. So this is it what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.
Jennifer Egan
#95. I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.
Johnny Giles
#96. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running.
Mitch Albom
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