Even so, the land felt like it still does today—it filled…

“Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of…

— Cheryl Strayed

“It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set.…

— Anne Frasier

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily…

— Lauren Oliver

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

— T. S. Eliot

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God.…

— Anne Michaels

It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through…

— John Lennon

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter…

— George Steiner

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

— Hisham Matar

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

— Henry Rollins

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

— Anonymous

I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go…

— Curtis Sliwa

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

— Bob Dylan