39 Hollow Quotes for You to Enjoy

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Buddha

Peace Words Better Word Thousand One Word Than Hollow Brings

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Washington Irving

Man Struggle Mind Poverty Ruined Must Pretense Purse Soon Between Come Empty Proud End Up Hollow Much Show Keeping

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people. Richard McKenna

People Money Will Citizen Nation Control Destiny Destroy Direct Like Policy Am Governments Hands Afraid Banks Hold Ordinary Ordinary Citizen Hollow Create Who Credit

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. Jenny Shipley

Future Speak Action Difficult Our Must Insufficient Issues Expect Commitments Children Grandchildren Hollow Us Act Tolerated

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. Laura Riding

Circle Criticism Live Draw Circumference Ourselves Out Spiders Like Hollow

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps. Alice Oswald

Old Made Ghosts Easily Web Wings Bags Heads Category Mist Mostly Smoke Exist Up Quickly Legs Break Spaces Hollow Barely Body Fill Rags Wasps Belong

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. Chris Kattan

Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action. Chris Murphy

Important Action Sympathy Rings Followed Hollow

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time. Edward Albee

Time Great People Wake Up Try Old Out Find Table Longest Longest Time Cry Make Sounds Been Wake Up Screaming Middle Hollow Old People Asleep Even Night

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul. Edwin Catmull

When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go. Greg Lynn

Life Hate My Life Big Down Secondhand Everything Kids Scale Would See Attached Horses Take Had Between Toys Became Go Were Rocking Surrounded Get Store In-Between Which Them Hollow Then Toddlers Plastic Things

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. Gustav Mahler

Love Immobile Call Sounds Rocks Very Hollow Among

I don't knock material rappers, but let me hear it in a different way. How many songs do I have to hear about rims on a car? It's ridiculous. There's no substance. It's a hollow shell. Gza

Me Car Way Rappers About Songs Knock Shell How Material Hear Substance Different Hollow Many Ridiculous Different Way

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them. John Tyler

Life Real Life Ruin Pleasure Followed Temptations More Poets Adorned Pointed Until Smiles She Known Real Perpetual Been Clothed Them Hollow Richest Who Many Painters Showy Ever Her Jewels

Anyone who's ever read the lyrics of an already cherished song has most likely encountered that hollow sensation of something missing, the absence of certain emotional integers. It can be like viewing a loved one's X-rays. Jonathan Miles

Song Lyrics Something Absence Emotional Missing Like Most Likely Read Cherished Encountered Sensation Anyone Loved Hollow Certain Viewing Ever

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing. Judith Wright

Creative Heart Hurt Ghost Out TV Some Sort Empty Felt Were Existing Often Hollow Barely Engaged Activities Deeply

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