Hollow Quotes - Page 8

• Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

  Kevin Conroy

  Parent, Identity, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fighting, Low Self Esteem, Shells

  Song: Lost, Album: Solace, 1991

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• So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

  Richard O'Brien

  Kind, Fame, Empty

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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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• How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

  Blaise Pascal

  Heart, Men

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, 1669.

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• I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked upon a search, and scarcely a clue as to what I might be after. I only knew that at the bottom of each breath there was a hollow place that needed to be filled.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Real, Might, Path

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.69, Penguin

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Truth, Pain

  Letter to Thomas Moore, 28 October 1815, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 4 (1975)

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• I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.

  Michael Moore

  Home, Support, Troops

  "Those Who Say ‘I Support the Troops’ Really Don’t" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2013.

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• Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my pride and my doubt. Make me hollow enough that you can breathe something through me that would turn eyes to you." And whether that's a song or a conversation you're going to have with a co-worker, or whatever you're facing, that's for everybody.

  TobyMac

  Song, Eye, Pride

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• But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Home, Heart, Sleep

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.108, Penguin

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• No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Morning, Mean

  "Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Ch. XXII: The Letter, 1853.

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Desire, Skins, Apathy

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• And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.

  Shannon Hale

  Struggle, Sadness, Saws

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• The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Years, Wind

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1873). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works”, p.303

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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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• Come to us and quackle and quank. Relieve us of our stirrings With your fangs so sharp and bright Take this blood that's always purring. Through our hollow bones it flows To each feather and downy fluff. Quell the terrible, horrid urge that so often prinkles us, Still our dreams, make slow our thoughts Let tranquillity flood our veins. Come to us and drink your fill So we might end our pains. - The Owls at St. Aegolius calling to the bats

  Kathryn Lasky

  Dream, Pain, Blood

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole #1: The Capture”, p.136, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• I haven’t had the chance to look at too many men’s faces up close. And I noticed how his skin was thicker than mine, and a gorgeous shade of toast. The stiff blond hairs on his cheeks and chin seemed to be growing before my eyes. He smelled like starch. Like pine. His nose wasn’t so pointy afterall. …And out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every single thing in my body-my skin, my collarbone, the hollow backs of my knees, everything inside of me filled up with light.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Eye, Men, Light

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.183, Penguin

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• If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Space, Work Out

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.302, Penguin

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• I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

  John Fowles

  Goes On, Want, Diseased

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Looks, Balloons, Impressive

  "Debate rages: Is Mexico tough enough on drug trade?", www.cnn.com. March 27, 1998.

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• Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Tree, Fields, Creation

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• To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Men, World

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

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• Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

  Frederick Douglass

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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