Quotes About Hollowness

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it to me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.

Tuesday: Nothing. Existed.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

There are empty rooms, and then there are rooms that feel crowded, corner to corner, with absence.

When individuals reach the highest pinnacles of success, but still cannot satisfy the constant hunger to find true meaning in life, with no place higher to climb, they see it all for what it really is, a chasing after the wind. What's next suddenly turns into what's the point? The hollowness of life starts eating away at their souls. For some, the only escape is by ending their lives. Enoch - The Unannounced Christmas Visitor.

The acquisition of material things has become the hallmark of the shallow life.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

The fact is that we're all lonely, of course. Everyone knows this, it's almost a cliché. So yet another layer of my essential fraudulence is that I pretended to myself that my loneliness was special, that is was uniquely my fault because I was somehow especially fraudulent and hollow.

As everything becomes bad in you, all the good goes out of the world like air out of a big broken balloon.

Her heart was dead long before her body. She had sold it to become

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold. Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!

And in thy best consideration check This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgement Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds Reverb no hollowness.

This is the treasure my lifestyle has earned me. Millions in the bank but an empty soul.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

I need to make her realize that even terrible memories are better than weird gaps or the hollowness of your feelings not making sense.

even terrible memories are better than weird gaps or the hollowness of your feelings not making sense.

Now they were merely trying to fill themselves up but not with the heart, not the soul. They'd lost both those along the way...

But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.

I poked at the white paper bag. There was nothing left inside. Just like me: a clean crisp outside and nothing at all on the inside.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal.