Quotes for All
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive. Galen Beckett
It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there was nothing but hollowness, yet it felt heavy, almost as if someone still resided there. Faraaz Kazi
I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should – that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics. Dennis Miller
Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to manage. Colm Toibin
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? Charlotte Bronte
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another’s rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureĀits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever. Charlotte Bronte
Something is missing: that’s as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. …There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in … Read more
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. Anne Lamott
Sometimes–sometimes it just hits me, you know? And, it’s not getting any easier. I choke, my eyes flooding all over again. I’m not sure that it will. I think you just get used to the feeling, the hollowness, the loss, and somehow learn to live around it Alyson Noel