Quotes About Hollow

As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight and leaky, that must alternate between the roles of container and content, and which simultaneously have properties of inner and outer walls.

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

When the bells justle in the tower The hollow night amid, Then on my tongue the taste is sour Of all I ever did.

Glory? Glory is for those too weak to find their inner strength, leaving them hollow parasites, feeding on the affection of even lesser men. Glory is for cowards, too afraid to let their names die.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of Apartheid! Ive said many times that the word Apartheid means good neighbourliness.

Isn't it strange, when you feel full, you are light as air, but when you feel empty and hollow you feel an enormous weight crushing you down. Will I ever be free from the burden or be able to touch and see without feeling the heartbreak in the heart of things?

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Passion is the source of our finest moments… If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound.

All life has emptiness at it's core it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.

Wrong Pauley made sure no one was around before he started down the alleyway toward his burrow. His nightly nesting spot didn't qualify as a Hobbit hole, or even a rabbit hole. It was a hollow in the midst of a strip of ice plant above a cinderblock

She smelled romantic, if he could claim romance as a scent, like a melting, sweet Alabama summer evening. The fragrance gathered in the hollow place between his heart and ribs.

Just being famous feels cheap to me.

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

Es gibt nichts, was leerer aussieht als ein leeres Schwimmbecken

back to the hollow in the middle of the field. As he waited, Hazel realized more fully than ever how dangerous was their position, without holes, wandering in country they did not know.

The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound or bottoms of barrels being scraped.

I did not want to cry any more. Instead I felt hollow, empty, as if all the meaning had been sucked out of me and I was drifting, light as a skeleton leaf, at the mercy of the four winds. I was drained of tears.

Somehow she felt hollow, as though her heart was wrenched away from her. She didn't realize it. She hadn't expected it. She loved Fallon.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.