Michael ChabonThe whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
About This Quote
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness" is a line from the poem, "The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe. When Poe wrote the poem, he was referring to the house in which he lived while locked away in jail. The house was empty without his wife, his daughter and his son. His son, who was locked up in an asylum, sent Poe a letter asking him to come see him. In his reply, Poe wrote: “The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness”
Some Similar Quotes
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
- The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
- Where there is love there is life.
- It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted....
More Quotes By Michael Chabon
- There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
- The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
- Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. There was something in Mendele. There was...
- Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect. If a writer doesn't...
- I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevitable, necessary part of writing fiction but as virtual guarantor, insofar as such a thing is possible, of the power of my work: as a...