EMPTINESS in Classic Quotes

1  She jumped away, her hands empty.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

2  Suddenly there were four empty chairs.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

3  At nine in the morning, Mildred's bed was empty.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

4  The street and the lawn and the porch were empty.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

5  The emptiness made an even emptier whistle, a senseless scream.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  She glanced nervously at the long emptiness of the walls enclosing them.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

7  He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

8  He cut off its terrible emptiness, drew back, and gave the entire room a gift of one huge bright yellow flower of burning.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

9  Go on, anyway, shove the bore down, slush up the emptiness, if such a thing could be brought out in the throb of the suction snake.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

10  She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

11  The bombers crossed the sky and crossed the sky over the house, gasping, murmuring, whistling like an immense, invisible fan, circling in emptiness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

12  The police went first and adhesive-taped the victim's mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

13  The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

14  Then he began to read in a low, stumbling voice that grew firmer as he progressed from line to line, and his voice went out across the desert, into the whiteness, and around the three sitting women there in the great hot emptiness.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

15  The lawn was empty, the trees empty, the street empty, and while at first he did not even know he missed her or was even looking for her, the fact was that by the time he reached the subway, there were vague stirrings of dis-ease in him.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

16  They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and gray-looking without its wall lit with orange and yellow confetti and skyrockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

17  For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander