Best Hollow Wisdom
343 Hollow quotes by 288 unique authors
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
— Emily Bronte
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One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping…
— Suzanne Collins
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There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs…
— Tom Stoppard
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Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing
— Jacqueline Carey
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Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems…
— C.S. Lewis
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Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure…
— Jeff Lindsay
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.
— Raymond Chandler
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Gosh, what a gripping story. You must have been simply terrified. Meanwhile we went to Godric's Hollow and, let's think, what happened there, Harry? Oh…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place…
— Ron Rash
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...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or…
— George Orwell
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When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We…
— June Jordan
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I'm the new Oberjarl." I knew it," said Halt instantly, and the other three looked at him, totally scandalized. You did?" Erak asked, his voice…
— John Flanagan
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A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face…
— William Shakespeare
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If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human…
— Mark Morford
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The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at…
— Mervyn Peake
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I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way…
— Catherine Fisher
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Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and…
— Anna Godbersen
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