Hollow Quotes

343 quotes by 295 authors

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
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
Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding. — James Rachels
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
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. — Abdul Kalam
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. — Plutarch
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
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall. — Annie Dillard
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
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
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
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
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins
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
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
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. — John Harold
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
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
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

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