Quotes About Hollowness

Aside from the fruit basket, the room was as empty as the inside of Dexter on the shelf marked SOUL.

She laughed again. It sounded like a string of empty metal cans clattering in the wind.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.

At the gaping, empty space.

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you're there, but not enough to fill you with life.

His blank face communicated an emptiness that could never be filled - Frank Balenger

Owen had apologized for his harsh words, but the contrition felt hollow, because so were his feelings.

Strength is an empty shell.

It was the first time she'd experienced separation, and the empty feeling deep inside her hurt something awful. She had no one to talk to, no one to explain the hollowness.

No hi ha res que pesi tant com el buit.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they'd need to destroy something that precious to feel full.

Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

we've become hollow men, stuffed men, heads filled with straw, no convictions or higher purpose…and for hollow men, the world will end not with a bang but a whimper.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

He's a hollow man, he believes in nothing. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.

She'd been only four, much too little to understand what was happening, when her mother walked out. She hardly remembered Michelle. Yet the loss was still with her, not really a pain, more like an emptiness, as if something that ought to be inside of her were missing. She worried that more losses would leave other empty spaces in her, until she would be as hollow as a shell from which the egg had been drained through a pinhole.