Hollow Quotes - Page 16

• Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

  Laird Barron

  Dark, Skills, House

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• The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Air, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.

  Plato

  Art, Thinking, Doors

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• Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Nuts, Would Be

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• The chief imagination of Christendom,
  Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
  That he has made that hollow face of his
  More plain to the mind's eye than any face
  But that of Christ.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Imagination, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

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• Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Self

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.92, Profile Books

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• Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

  James Rachels

  True Friend, Real, Understanding

  James Rachels (1999). “The Elements of Moral Philosophy”

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• 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
  The hilly brakes around,
  For under thorn and bramble
  About the hollow ground
  The primroses are found.
  And there's the windflower chilly
  With all the winds at play,
  And there's the Lenten lily
  That has not long to stay
  And dies on Easter day.

  A. E. Housman

  Easter, Spring, Wind

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

  Helen Waddell

  Truth, Onions, Coats

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

  John Clare

  Summer, Nature, Tree

  John Clare, Tom Pohrt, Robert Hass (2012). “Careless Rambles: A Selection of His Poems”, p.31, Counterpoint Press

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• He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sweet, Memories, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Fall, People

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• If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Years, Law

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.

  Edna O'Brien

  Heart, Self, Secret

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• Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Fate, Dark, Voice

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• There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart

  Felicia Hemans

  Mother, Strong, Heart

  Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.77, Broadview Press

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• Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

  Beth Kephart

  Song, Giving, Body

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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• I, Tivadar Kosztka, who gave up his prime of youth for the rebirth of the world, accepting the call of the invisible Spirit, had a regular civil job, comfort, wealth then... Going to Paris in 1907 I oppositely standed alone in front of millions with only the result of the divine providence, and I beat the vanity of the world hollow, but I haven't killed 10 million people, only sobered them. I haven't made commercials from things, because I didn't care for the pedlar's press; I retired from the world instead, going to the top of the Lebanons, and I painted cedars.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Jobs, Vanity, Paris

  "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

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• But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

  Lee Greenwood

  Believe, Heart, People

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• A vital Christian, radiating that hidden beauty of the heart, is more attractive to the right sort of Christian man (the only kind you want) than the raving beauty who is hollow within.  A woman who is developing her domestic abilities, who is reasonably attractive, and who is a vital Christian in her own right is an irresistible person.

  Jay E. Adams

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Skins, Weight, Want

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 15, 2013

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• There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Sound, Serious

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• It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

  Gayle Forman

  Real, Feelings, Good Movie

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.17, Penguin

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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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• America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

  Billy Graham

  Country, Numbers, America

  Billy Graham (1995). “Billy Graham: The Inspirational Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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