Quotes About Hollow

He was empty of response. There was a hollow feeling

Some basically unloving parents, in an attempt to cover up their lack of caring, make frequent professions of love to their children, repetitively and mechanically telling them how much they are valued, but not devoting significant time of high quality to them. Their children are never totally deceived by such hollow words. Consciously they may cling to them, wanting to believe that they are loved, but unconsciously they know that their parents' words do not match up with their deeds.

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

A hollow mind is only liked relentlessly by many fellow who are also of equal shallow thinking capability.

When I was a boy, one of my favorite places to go was a pine-filled hollow high on the mountain behind our house. It was a place where the industrial song of Coalwood subsided. I would sit on a dead log and listen to nothing except the beating of my own heart and the thoughts racing through my head.

looking at my reflection, in the window opposite, hollow and translucent, I see a woman disappearing. It would help if I looked like that in real life – if the more the disease advanced, the more 'see-through' I became until, eventually, I would be just a wisp of a ghost. How much more convenient it would be, how much easier for everyone, including me, if my body just melted away along with my mind. Then we'd all know where we were, literally and metaphysically.

Hiç de fena insanlar de?illerdi. Yaln?z bo?, bombo? mahluklard?. Yapt?klar? münasebetsizlikler hep buradan geliyordu.

Below on the beach, the surf also seemed the same, although the sea was more transparent. In the light of day, the hollow formed by the terrace and the cave seemed as tiny as a nest. They themselves were merely a man and a woman lost in the immensity.

I wait, for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part. The hold of a ship. Hollow.

Love comes in waves like the ocean, a sickness which goes on & on, a hollow cave in the head, filling & pounding

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil.

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil. I

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil.

Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.

Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you catch the grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

She isn't…substantial enough. She is a line drawing of a woman that has been only partially colored in.

I felt even more hollow than I had.

That until now she was a Christmas tree that had been decorated by someone who hated Christmas.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Zeke snickers through a thin, diseased beard. "I really need you to stop now," and from the hollow of his back, as if scratching an itch, Zeke produces the tool of a coward and a cheat.

An upland hollow and mist beneath the moon—a veil of mist over apple blossoms and the heavy bloom of an ancient lilac bush beside the ruin of a farmhouse burned these sixty years and more.