Hollow Quotes

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

What's a victory when its hollow?

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!