People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.
If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.
I will tell you, I don't miss me and Bristol fighting, but coming home to an empty house every other week, you walk in there, and it's a reminder of the failure of the marriage.
One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.
A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
