Best Hollow Proverbs
343 Hollow quotes by 288 unique authors
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There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.
— Ann Aguirre
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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude…
— Philip Larkin
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Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring.…
— Kathryn Lasky
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I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It…
— Terry McMillan
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I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and…
— Kathryn Stockett
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If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
— John Fowles
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We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.
— Henry Miller
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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in…
— Dan Simmons
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I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what…
— Charles Darwin
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I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the…
— Stefan Zweig
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And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had…
— Jodi Picoult
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I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog…
— Isaac Marion
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Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at…
— Pittacus Lore
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I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.
— Jodi Picoult
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He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face…
— Veronica Roth
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
— Haruki Murakami
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Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind…
— Christopher McDougall
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We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood…
— Nicole Krauss
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a…
— Mark Twain
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I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took…
— Joseph Conrad
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They crested a rise, and there it was, in the hollow between rolling hills—a low, square building, ghostly gray in the moonlight. "Is that it?"…
— Gordon Korman
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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't…
— Laini Taylor
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