Quotes About Hollowness

Voller Entsetzen begriffen sie, dass dies der letzte & schlimmste Trick des Dschungels war, dass er sie, indem er ihre Herzenswünsche erfüllte, dazu verleitete, ihre Träume aufzubrauchen, so dass sie, während ihr Traumleben ihnen entschlüpfte, so hohl & durchsichtig wie Glas wurden.

Strength is an empty shell.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.

I have been around a lot of addiction in my life, and I knew what I was feeling—the addicted person's craving for the thing that numbs their nagging sense of hollowness.

Not one of these symbols of prosperity and taste has any use at all.

The "stuffed men" are bound to become more lonely no matter how much they "lean together"; for hollow people do not have a base from which to learn to love.

He was empty of response. There was a hollow feeling

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 'tis kept is lighter than vanity.

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up.

The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.

El dolor no cuajó alrededor de nada.

Era incesante en la pasión vacía.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Uop?e nisu bili loši ljudi. Samo su bili isprazna stvorenja. Sve neprimjereno što bi uradili dolazilo je odatle. Pred zijevaju?om prazninom svoje vlastite unutrašnjosti mogu su osvijestiti svoju li?nost i zadovoljiti se samo dok druge ljude tretiraju kao nevažne, vrije?aju ih i smiju im se.

Hiç de fena insanlar de?illerdi. Yaln?z bo?, bombo? mahluklard?. Yapt?klar? münasebetsizlikler hep buradan geliyordu.

You could make beautiful pictures with paint, but there was nothing behind it.

They're not starving to death, but they look hollow-eyed and barren, like they've been fed just enough food but never enough happiness.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

the silent tutting infuriated him as symptomatic of a generation. The assumed air of gravity and the fraudulent pretence of judgement in situations that required only answer or action struck him as the manner in which old men concealed their hollowness.

Troy had always thought of pipes as a way of passing off vacuity as thought, the hollow man's way of seeming less than hollow.