Hollow Quotes - Page 7

• There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

  Ann Aguirre

  Loss, Self, Echoes

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.258, Penguin

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• Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

  Philip Larkin

  Attitude, Age, Finals

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• I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it had opened up a gaping hole in my psyche. In the process of creating art, I might be trying to fill that hole, or to reduce its depth, or to make it feel less hollow. I think that making art could have helped from that moment on.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Art, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.

  Mervyn Peake

  Moon, Feet, Shadow

  Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

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• If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes. The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's.

  Mark Morford

  Spiritual, Laughter, Real

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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• I'm the new Oberjarl." I knew it," said Halt instantly, and the other three looked at him, totally scandalized. You did?" Erak asked, his voice hollow, his eyes still showing the shock of his sudden elevation to the highest office in Skandia. Of course," said the Ranger, shrugging. "You're big, mean, and ugly and those seem to be the qualities Skandian's value most.

  John Flanagan

  Mean, Eye, Voice

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• Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Stars, Real

  "The Silver Chair". TV Series, (1990 - ).

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• Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger.

  Andre Dirrell

  Kids, Scary, Fans

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• ...Nature allows
  Destruction nor collapse of aught, until
  Some outward force may shatter by a blow,
  Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells,
  Dissolve it down.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Cells, Inward

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strong, Lying, Justice

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless.

  Tucker Max

  Stuff, Kind, Realizing

  Source: www.complex.com

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• What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

  Gregory Maguire

  Memories, Real, Heart

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• You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

  George Orwell

  Empty

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1351, Penguin UK

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• If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

  Donna Tartt

  Skulls, Mind, Bats

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.204, Vintage

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• He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mother, Brother, Real

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• Sometimes you meet a really nice guy, but no matter how you try, you can't seem to make yourself want him. But that's not nearly as bad as when you meet the wrong guy, and you can't make yourself not want him. You feel hollow inside, just waiting and wishing and dreaming. You feel like every moment is leading to something so amazing that there's no name for it, and if you could just get there with him, it would be such a...relief. It would be all you'd ever need.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Nice, Names

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• The southern wind
  Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
  And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
  Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Play, Southern

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.743, BookCaps Study Guides

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• She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

  Jean Rhys

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Jean Rhys (1985). “Tales of the wide Caribbean”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

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• I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Apples, Drawing

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.344, Penguin

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• A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  "William Shakespeare: The Complete Works".

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• There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

  John Piper

  Christian, Kings, Children

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• The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, Men, Heartless

  1958 In the New York Times Magazine, 7 Dec.

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• Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

  Craig Thompson

  Lonely, Fall, Space

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• She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

  Mitch Albom

  Punishment, Gone, Fixing

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Way, Lifeless

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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