Quotes About Hollow

Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

There is no body or truth we possess, nor even any illusion. We are phantoms made of lies. Shadows of illusions, our lives are hollow on both the outside and the inside.

We are hollow inside and out, pariahs of anticipation and promise.

Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.

Any victory won that way would be Pyrrhic.

It looked was deep, gaping like a mouth.

because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.

Some echo, no doubt, of the great silence with which her own mother had tormented Aadam Aziz lingered in her ears—because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

What, no wine? said Dantes, turning pale, and looking alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the empty cupboards. What, no wine? Have you wanted money, father?

She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.

Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.

Why do you follow me?- Any moment I can be Nothing but a laurel tree. Any moment of the chase I can leave you in my place A pink bough for your embrace. Yet if over hill and hollow Still it is your will to follow, I am off; - to heel, Apollo!

Ebb 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 tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

An empty man is full of himself.

Mazes in the nodules on murex shells and in the textures of sycamore bark and inside the hollow bones of eagles. None more complicated than the human brain

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll -- doll -- doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!

The contentment today in my room. Hollow as a shell on the beach, ready to be crushed by a footstep

Trump's slogan to "make America great again" sounds so hollow and laughable!