Empty Rooms Quotes

• An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

  Jules Renard

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

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• In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

  Antonio Porchia

  Broken Heart, Wise, Appreciation

  Antonio Porchia (2006). “Voces reunidas”, Pre Textos Ed

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• Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have?

  Joss Whedon

  Lying, Sleep, Passion

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997-2003.

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• Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

  Harper Lee

  Heart, Darkness, Pages

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• We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Rooms, Empty, Locked

  "Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

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• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.

  Nick Flynn

  Heart, Sunday, Bye

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• I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Circles, Feelings

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• When the mind's an empty room
  The clear days come.

  Wendell Berry

  Mind, Clear Day, Rooms

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.193, Counterpoint Press

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• This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

  Jacob M. Appel

  White, Electric Shock, Silence

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.62, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

  Bea Arthur

  Mother, Wish, Hospice

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• The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.

  Vivian Gornick

  Loneliness, Writing, Self

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• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Communication, Men

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.50, Verso

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• The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

  Clifford Stoll

  Doors, Perfect, Internet

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• You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

  William Friedkin

  Bullshit, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I like to have a drink or two, but I cut down on that. It was getting a little out of control. Two of the guys in the band don't even drink at all. We just riff off each other man. We're just so, so eye-to-eye with our sense of humour that we can just sit in an empty room and entertain ourselves for hours.

  Jordan Buckley

  Eye, Cutting, Men

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.

  Ladyhawke

  Thinking, What If, Half

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Party, School, College

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us.

  Judd Nelson

  School, Space, Library

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
  It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

  Robert Goolrick

  Goodbye, Sweet, Drama

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• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Self, Voice, House

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• Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

  Jaron Lanier

  Doors, People, Anxiety

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.180, Vintage

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• Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Silly, Hysteria, Laughing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

  Joss Whedon

  Life, Hurt, Peace

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Passion)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Flower, Desert, Faces

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• 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

  House, Together, Furniture

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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