Quotes About Vacancy
A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
~ Mark Twain
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There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.
~ Stephen King
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I saw a Vacancy sign in a brownstone on Lexington Avenue, rang the bell, the door swung open, and there she was: a squat, middle-aged woman with a purple velvet bow perched on her raven-dyed hair and a look of delighted astonishment on her face. She was encased in a dress of iridescent taffeta; on her feet, over her stockings, she wore tan socks and over these—high heeled patent leather pumps.
~ Bel Kaufman
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It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.
~ Graham Greene
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There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no prose at all. He knew.
~ Graham Greene
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There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew
~ Graham Greene
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Even Vacancy was crowded with her.
~ Graham Greene
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Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.
~ Graham Swift
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In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
~ Emile M. Cioran
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The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.
~ Josef Pieper
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jOrdnung ist heutzutage meistens dort, wo nichts ist. Es ist eine Mangelerscheinung.
~ Bertolt Brecht
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Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
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The town was so dull: one day the tide went out, and it never came back.
~ Tommy Cooper
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FJ's eyes slithered toward Myron. Myron kept up the eye contact, but there was still nothing there, like looking into the windows of an abandoned building.
~ Harlan Coben
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Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
~ Haruki Murakami
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I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.
~ Ntozake Shange
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If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty? Yet the simple fact is that if I remain in these Halls I will be alone.
~ Susanna Clarke
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Silence can bring with it a vacancy that in its turn craves the distraction of the human voice or the obscuring impact created...by music. These distractions can help to stifle the terror of being abandoned to the silence of the noisy mind.
~ Juliet Nicolson
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Life is a dinner party without a host. And, frequently, without a dinner party either.
~ Frank Kuppner
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just a state of nothingness.
~ Brenda Davies
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What we're in is a vacuum.
~ Henning Mankell
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every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
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The terrace and the whole place, the lawn and the garden beyond it, all I could see of the park, were empty with a great emptiness.
~ Henry James
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He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.
~ Michael Shaara
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