Quotes About Empty Houses

#1. 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

#2. A few nights later we had a neighborhood-watch party, which is where everyone on the street gets together in the Crowleys' yard and talks and laughs and pretends that nothing is wrong, and meanwhile all our empty houses are ripe for burglary.

Dan Wells

#3. There is a silence in empty houses that is unique ... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

Henning Mankell

#4. Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.

Christopher Marlowe

#5. I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.
In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait

Pablo Neruda

#6. You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.

Steven Erikson

#7. As in plain terms (yet cunningly) he crav'd it; / Love always makes those eloquent that have it (II.71-2).

Christopher Marlowe

#8. For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.

Elizabeth Of The Trinity

#9. The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air.

Markus Zusak

#10. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere.

Philip K. Dick

#12. To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

Shusaku Endo

#13. The abandoned traffic lights stare at us like empty eye sockets. Fields have gone to weed. There's a little town of houses that have been haphazardly repaired by boards and scraps of metal.

Lauren DeStefano

#14. Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

Mason Cooley

#15. I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Michael Connelly

#16. Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.

Joan Rivers

#17. Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

R. Kelly

#18. The truth of scientific research, just like the truth behind many equally complex areas of study, is that the people behind them are far more human than we tend to admit.

Anonymous

#19. In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim).

Herman Melville

#20. The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. There must be a God and he can't know anything about us.

John Fowles

#21. 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

#22. Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Saint Augustine

#23. Either you have dreams or you live your dreams. I'm not all that remarkable. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other until I get to where I have to go.

Zoe Koplowitz

#24. Nicholas Adams drove on through the town along the empty, brick-paved street ... on under the heavy trees of the small town that are a part of your heart if it is your town and you have walked under them, but that are only too heavy, that shut out the sun and that dampen the houses for a stranger.

Ernest Hemingway,

#25. Then all the charm
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#26. Writing is not about ideas, it is about the expression of ideas - a written expression.

Paul Raymond Martin

#27. I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service

Richard Harris