Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as I passed, with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came soften'd from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Everybody works but the vacant lot
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
There are no vacant lots in nature.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
Full of men, vacant of friends.
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes
We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare
Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously
Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.
I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.