Hollowness Quotes

31 quotes by 27 authors

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. — John Frederick Boyes
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological… — Philip Hensher
It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there… — Faraaz Kazi
The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt… — Richard Laymon
There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling,… — Laozi
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough? — Patrick Rothfuss
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent. — Mason Cooley
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost… — Alastair Campbell
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture… — Jonathan Hale
I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love… — Anne Lamott
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made… — Alan Watts
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. — Paul Wellstone
..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and… — Colm Toibin
Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something… — Patrick Rothfuss
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have-… — Virginia Woolf

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