Quotes About Hollowness

Beware actors who can be anyone they wish to be; they are in fact no one at all, cold and empty, though they can be pied pipers to the masses.

The memory of that sort of wish--the bone-deep need to have contact of any sort, a longing that harrowed the soul, a hollowness that could not be filled--struck me so hard that I couldn't speak. Jamie had haunted me--in spite of all my efforts to immerse myself in the life I had. Would I have found the strength to come back, if he hadn't remained as a constant presence in my heart, in my dreams?

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially empty.

cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells

He wondered why, after years of wanting to stand at the very top, he felt so goddamned empty.

I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand. I

There is no gem the world that can fill the emptiness in your heart.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness at the heart of it that-I knew-made her sad.

When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless.

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

Some people are like fake flowers, appear beautiful from a distance but when you go near, you realize how useless they are.

I was a gray space filled up with nothing.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)

Artificial pleasures arrive stillborn; they have no life of their own.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.

You can have everything and feel nothing.

It is last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves, To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.