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Quotes About Hollowness

Vocês contemplam, mas não têm olhos; ouvem, mas os vossos ouvidos estão surdos. Porque em vocês não há amor divino, porque são como barris vazios…
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
My answer would just be a word. A word which doesn't express a feeling, doesn't express an emotion, because I'm bereft of them. A word which would be nothing but the sound made when you strike a cold, empty skull.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.
~ Angela Carter
She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left
~ Angela Carter
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
~ Ravi Zacharias
We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
~ Roland Barthes
A lot was spoken but nothing was said.
~ Leon Uris
Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
turned out, a giant well of emptiness had always existed inside me. A void so deep and black and ugly, I wasn't just empty, I was hollowed out by the losses in my life. Until there were days I didn't dare go outside because I worried the wind would blow me away. The pills became my
~ Lisa Gardner
in a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning. Meaning
~ Aldous Huxley
from that, there was nothing.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.
~ Rumi
All that was missing... was everything else.
~ Ann Hood
We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.
~ Anna Maxted
A vida é oca, a alma é oca, o mundo é oco. Todos os deuses morrem de uma morte maior que a morte. Tudo está mais vazio que o vácuo. E tudo um caos de coisas nenhumas.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.
~ Douglas Brinkley
A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.
~ Douglas Alexander
That cold, dead look with something behind it like waiting
~ Robert Swindells
Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people's charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself.
~ Lorrie Moore
Like everyone he knew, he could discern the hollowness in people's charm only when it was directed at someone other than himself. When it was directed at him, the person just seemed so totally nice.
~ Lorrie Moore (Author)
nothing here that
~ Louis L'Amour
The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if it advances their petty cause – will claim to be great leaders
~ Salman Rushdie
We celebrate donut culture, it's sweet and it tastes good but there's a void at the heart
~ Salman Rushdie