Hollow Quotes
343 quotes by 295 authors
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
— John Ashbery
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see…
— Lord Byron
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
— James Rachels
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,…
— Primo Levi
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
— Abdul Kalam
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
— Plutarch
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
— Annie Dillard
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Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed lack of method and discrimination.…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
— Charles Dickens
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
— Pablo Neruda
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
— Richard Dawkins
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically…
— L. Neil Smith
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The girl who I will marry will have a heart so wise that in the hollow of her eyes my heart will want to tarry.…
— Jacques Brel
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Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
— John Harold
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still…
— Andrea Dworkin
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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as…
— Judith Wright
Who Wrote These Hollow Quotes
295 authors contributed a total of 343 Hollow Quotes, led by these top contributors: