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Quotes About Hollow

Nelson Chase's dull face hung in the middle distance like a jack-a-lantern.
~ Gore Vidal
Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside. It also feeds on human time
~ Sebastian Fitzek
Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside.
~ Sebastian Fitzek
The heart of the artist is a little bit hollow. The bones of the artist are a little bit hollow. The brain of the artist is a little bit hollow. But this allows them to fly.
~ Sheila Heti
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...
~ T. S. Eliot
There was a hollow sound in Robert's ear, a feeling of falling, of many things converging to a point as he listened to the following words and low drum of the radio and the sound of his own heart echoing through the halls of his body. He would later say that he felt like he was floating up to the ceiling, looking down on the room for a moment.
~ Maureen Johnson
All I have is intuition and a little hope." "Don't be such a pessimist. You've also got two tires, two garbage bags, and a hollow spindle.
~ Stephen King
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
~ Gustav Mahler
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
~ Joseph Conrad
He and Sandstorm hunted and carried their fresh-kill back to the cave. But when he reached the entrance, Firestar stopped in surprise. The hollow in the cave floor was empty. Sky had gone.
~ Erin Hunter
On the other side, beyond the gap that led into the stone hollow, the unknown forest lay waiting. No—ThunderClan's new territory lay waiting.
~ Erin Hunter
To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered is to be renewed. To be in want is to possess. To have plenty is to be confused," Lao Tzu wrote.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
A horrible coma call'd living So now in this coma call'd living I view the bright phantoms of beauty; The false hollow phantoms of beauty
~ H.P. Lovecraft
A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.
~ Harlan Coben
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
~ Lewis Mumford
Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.
~ Greg Child
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
~ Robert Jordan
When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.
~ Zakk Wylde
as they say in Texas, all hat and no cattle.
~ Max Boot
the doctor saw that the fire was still raging in the hollow breast of the cattleman, but there was no longer fuel to feed it.
~ Max Brand
The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.
~ Mervyn Peake
our hostess backed out of the room, grinning vapidly. She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained. I felt that the grin...would shatter if it were touched and fall to the floor in pieces.
~ Beryl Markham
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin