Quotes About Hollowness

The world is a lively place enough, in which we must accommodate ourselves to circumstances, sail with the stream as glibly as we can, be content to take froth for substance, the surface for the depth, the counterfeit for the real coin. I wonder no philosopher has ever established that our globe itself is hollow. It should be, if Nature is consistent in her works.

For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and work legitimizes them. They feel important; they feel needed; they feel alive. However, they have a false sense of life and importance, and eventually it leaves them feeling hollow. It

Nothing. My heart sank down into my stomach.

Pretty women with no soul like paintings on the wall

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

Nothingness not being nothing, nothingness being emptiness.

The truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?

He saw so many emotions mingled on her face: anger disappointment, fear – and defiance. Like her daughter, thought Fenoglio again. So uncompromising, so strong. Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out, very slowly.

The No filled the whole air of the house. Every time she breathed in she breathed in that No.

When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone." Then she walked away.

When I look into most people's eyes, I see a soul. When I look into your eyes, I see a bottomless pit, an empty hole, a dead zone.

Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Where are the books? All these elegant bookshelves are empty.

When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.

He laughed with a kind of mirthless bark.

The others are all common mouths chattering, empty heads like wooden whistles blowing common tunes.

Neutrality is generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it hides what it is - nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both.

He explained that he had spent more than 30 years with people he didn't like to buy things he didn't need. Life had become a succession of trophy wives—he was on lucky number three—expensive cars, and other empty bragging rights. Mark was one of the living dead. This is exactly where we don't want to end up.

Sin makes us fools. We are easily deceived, attracted to hollow and deceptive philosophy, and enticed by arguments that lead us away from Christ. Sin blinds us to our sin!

Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.

How do you feel?" He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam.