Vacant Mind Quotes

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

An idle head is a boxe for the winde.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.