Hollowness Quotes

Hollowness Quote of the day

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

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.

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.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?