Quotes About Vacancy

All that was missing... was everything else.

nothing here that

There are no vacant lots in nature.

He was empty of response. There was a hollow feeling

I recall how the flash of her glowing dress against my closing eyelids was like the neon glow of hotels flashing VACANCY VACANCY on a long night ride. I felt the weight of my mind hanging from a branch, pulling, pulling, and before I knew it the stem had snapped and I was falling, blind, into the void.

being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

There are many private companies which conduct an interview not for the selection of any candidates in own organization but to merely collect market and competitors' information and such positions are often shown frequently through placement consultants or ads of job vacancy.

Filling a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court is a solemn process for our nation, and I hope Senate consideration of Judge Barrett will not descend into the dishonorable spectacle that Americans witnessed during the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

A place so empty it was not even haunted

An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.

It's hard to know exactly how many empty houses there are...the census placed the figure, in the United States, in 2000, at about 10.5 million housing units (including apartments, counting duplexes as two, and so forth). For comparison: less than a quarter million people lived in homeless shelters in 2000.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

The place gave out a look of hollow desuetude, as though its desertion would last forever.

Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world. Dobbs

The sea: you watch it for a while, lose interest, and then, because there is nothing else to look at, go back to watching it. It fills you with great thoughts which, leading nowhere and having nothing to focus on except the unfocused mass of the sea, dissolve into a vacancy which in turn, for want of any other defining characteristic, you feel content to term 'awe'.

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

had voided itself.

El otro, como otro, reviste fácilmente ese carácter maravilloso e inaccesible, pero él a solas consigo, experimenta para sí ese vacío que está en su corazón.

A litter was quickly formed, and Aubrey was laid by the side of her who had lately been to him the object of so many bright and fairy visions, now fallen with the flower of life that had died within her. He knew not what his thoughts were--his mind was benumbed and seemed to shun reflection, and take refuge in vacancy--he held almost unconsciously in his hand a naked dagger of a particular construction, which had been found in the hut.

El aburrimiento es el eco en nosotros del tiempo que se desgarra…, la revelación del vacío, el cese de ese delirio que sostiene —o inventa— la vida…

He is simply a hole in the air.