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Quotes About Hollowness

Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
~ Peter Kreeft
I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.
~ J.W. Lord
Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.
~ Edwidge Danticat
When he left us, he stole all the words.
~ Alex George
Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.
~ Neeraj Kabi
He wants something from me. He doesn't know that the only thing I have left is the hollow of something gone
~ Ken Kesey
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
~ Harold MacMillan
We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.
~ William Shakespeare
You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
you have nothing
~ David Walliams
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
~ Umberto Eco
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection, no more.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I don't know how to be . . . an- ything but empty.
~ Alice Notley
Guarda attentamente. La vita è ciò che vedi: membrana, viscere, un buco senza fondo che esige di essere riempito. La vita è questo tubo, flessibile, che ingoia e rimane vuoto.
~ Amelie Nothomb
There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.
~ Margot Robbie
What makes the BJP or its government of Modi a brand for the elections - it is some content that makes the brand. Hollowness cannot create a brand, chest-thumping can't create a brand. Ultimately, the quality of the product creates a brand.
~ Arun Jaitley
Emptiness will always cripple me.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
Eight floors of the kind of consumer garbage that L.A. is famous for. Need a Ferrari jacket? Sure. You're a race car driver. Vroom vroom. Need silk designer socks that cost more than neurosurgery? We have that too. Come on down to the Beverly Center for something bright and shiny and leave feeling poorer, puzzled, and dead inside.
~ Richard Kadrey
We feel dissatisfaction because we have a nagging sense that somehow, somewhere, we've lost something. This is because we really have lost something.
~ Richard Sylvester