Empty Streets Quotes:

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

topic: Falling In Love, Fun, Real, Let The Good Times Roll, Demented

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Unique, Moon, Light, Empty Streets

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Night, Empty Mind, Accompany You, Late Night, Empty Streets

It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

- Robert E. Lee

topic: Walking Away, Doors, Feelings, Footsteps, Shutters

The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

- Epes Sargent

source: Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.119

topic: Night, White, Snow, Window Panes, Empty Streets

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Empty, Moonlight, Streets, Empty Streets

He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.

- Jay Asher

source: Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.219, Penguin

topic: Heart, Air, Car, Empty Streets

There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.

- Moby

source: "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

topic: Morning, Cities, Two, Empty Streets, Urban Environment

I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

- Edgar Wright

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Night, Light, Imitating, Up All Night

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh’s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

- Jack Gilbert

source: Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf

topic: Summer, Rain, Night, Summer Rain, Empty Streets

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Sweet, Morning, Stars, Trill, Empty Streets

With the wings of a bird and the heart of a man he compass'd his flight, And the cities and seas, as he flew, were like smoke at his feet. He lived a great life while we slept, in the dark of the night, And went home by the mariners' road, down the stars' empty street.

- Ernest Rhys

topic: Stars, Home, Heart, Empty Streets