“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
We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises. — Charles Spurgeon 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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
Sometimes--sometimes it just hits me, you know? And, it's not getting any easier." I choke, my eyes flooding all over again. "I'm… — Alyson Noel 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Agreement: I savage the name! I have to fill the hollowness of the termite — 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
Are failed attempts to bring mysmile on the face, is the hollowness see time s — Mak_786 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
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
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
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