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
Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You… — Richard Laymon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale 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
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
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
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
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
But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures… — Thomas Merton 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
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
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
The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional… — Aiden Wilson Tozer 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
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