Even the sweetest apple is hollow on the inside

When all this time I have been so hollow inside I know youre still there¦

— Anonymous

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

— Marlene van Niekerk

“Death is the sweetest apple that you can only bite once”

— Luther

“She searches me with those odd, blue-green eyes and I feel guilty so suddenly, without understanding why. But there’s something about the way she…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Only after loving you I realised I had an empty space; this little void, a tad bit of hollow inside a corner of my…

— Neena H Brar

“I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside. I don’t understand how my body can be full of…

— Colleen Hoover

“There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.”

— George RR Martin

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