“Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence. — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness — Malayan Proverb Copy Share Image
“Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“...even terrible memories are better than weird gaps or the hollowness of your feelings not making sense.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough? — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if… — Jed Rubenfeld Copy Share Image
“But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“To-night, for the first time in my life, I saw through the hollowness, the sham, the silliness of the empty pageant in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
“And always, in my pocket, in my skin, in the back of my mind, the hollowness where he used to be. The… — Leah Raeder Copy Share Image
Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
“A capacity for interiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation to squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hollowness.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“A capacity for interiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation to squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hollowness.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What do you think love is- a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Are failed attempts to bring mysmile on the face, is the hollowness see time s — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Agreement: I savage the name! I have to fill the hollowness of the termite — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“When there was nothing left inside, he laid his head down on the carpet and stared at the wooden railing. He was… — Jeyn Roberts Copy Share Image
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
![“It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of…” quote by Philip Hensher](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00c/philip-hensher-35347_books_it-fiction-allows-us-to-see-the-world-fr_1107125.jpg)
