Hollow Man Quotes

• We are the hollow men
  We are the stuffed men
  Leaning together...

  T. S. Eliot

  Learning, Men, Together

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• Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

  T. S. Eliot

  Eye, Men, Color

  "The Hollow Men" l. 13 (1925)

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• Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Fall, Simple

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.173, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Philosophical, Shadow

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.76, Faber & Faber

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• life is long between the desire and the spasm.

  T. S. Eliot

  Long, Desire, Life Is

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

  Sam Keen

  Men, Advice, Earth

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• This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Poetry, Religion

  "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

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• Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Way, Scar

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• It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

  Anne Sweeney

  Worry, Failing, Torque

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• There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Faith, Simple

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. 20

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• When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Use, Decay

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• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Reality, Ideas

  "The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

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• Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Essence, Shadow

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• I was tired of chasing ghosts, hollow men who were outside my comfort zone, men who had nothing to give me except a rush. It was all I asked for, and all I ever got.

  Terry McMillan

  Tired, Men, Giving

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.34, Penguin

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• Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Elliot calls 'hollow men'. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Pain, Men

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• Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.

  Primo Levi

  Men, Clothes, Justice

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.

  Stephen Marche

  Real, Mistake, Men

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• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Reality, Essence

  "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)

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• Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Merit, Doe

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• They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)

  Kevin Bacon

  Taken, Dark, Thinking

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