Quotes About Hollowness

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe.

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

Her voice is an empty bucket kicked down a stone cellar staircase.

No one knows how to feel anything anymore. No one knows anymore. Ain't no one care. People have, like, experiences. Everything just another experience. They do things, but they don't feel it. It just all goes right through them. Like they a ghost. Like we all ghosts.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

decididos a no aprender más de lo necesario para cazar una sinecura, pobres diablos cuya fermentación de espíritu no era más que un brote de sangre que desaparecería con la juventud. Poco a poco, este desdén se hizo extensivo a sus amigos cabalistas, espíritus huecos hinchados de viento, atiborrados de palabras que no entendían y que regurgitaban en fórmulas.

had voided itself.

There's an extremely fine line between "boldly transgressive" and spiritually barren

When the chicken fat runs out, all that's left is an empty hole.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.

He reflected that Fran had an unsurpassed show-window display but not much on the shelves inside.

What good is safety if you're dead inside?

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

We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.

empty things for empty men.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

There is a certain point—she has known this since her father-in-law's long battle with heart disease—when a person begins to die in earnest. There is a hollowness about them. They begin to retreat. She has seen this, and she knows.

I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

He is simply a hole in the air.

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

There is no there there.