Best Hollow Thoughts
343 Hollow quotes by 288 unique authors
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I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support:…
— Michael Moore
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Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will…
— Alanis Morissette
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
— Henry Rollins
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I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
— Henry David Thoreau
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long…
— Thomas Wolfe
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She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a…
— Nicole Krauss
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I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and…
— William Butler Yeats
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In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without…
— Alex Haley
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No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their…
— Libba Bray
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The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a…
— C.S. Lewis
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I…
— Dave Eggers
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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded…
— Albert Camus
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That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
— Nick Hornby
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Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us...…
— Joss Whedon
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Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his…
— Thomas Pynchon
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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness…
— Charlotte Bronte
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New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,…
— Henry Miller
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Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy,…
— Antonio Lobo Antunes
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Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken;…
— Margaret Atwood
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And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw…
— Shannon Hale
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