Hollow Inside Quotes

#1. The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.

J.D. Lakey

#2. Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings? ... Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

Piers Anthony

#3. was achingly hollow inside, her words dropping like copper pennies down an empty well.

Natasha Boyd

#4. I feel hollow inside, as if there's a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself.

Beth Revis

#5. The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

Charles Bukowski

#6. He said something I remember very clearly. Self esteem is overrated. Anyone will think they color great if enough people tell them. Artificial praise. Down inside, compliments like that are hollow.

Albert Borris

#7. I'm going to bury myself so deep inside of you it'll leave you feeling hollow when I'm not with you. ~Vince

Vi Keeland

#8. This felt like that. Hollow and painful on the inside. So bad that you wanted to cut yourself and watch the blood spill out so there would be a visible representation of what you were feeling.

S. Doyle

#9. I should have felt overwhelmed by emotion. I should have felt something. But despite my tears, I was numb. As if that black hole that would envelop my husband's body forever was really inside me. I was the black hole. Hollow, echoing, empty.

Ellen J. Green

#10. Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside
and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

Camron Wright

#11. Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost. Hatred,

Lauren Oliver

#12. Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

Jeff Lindsay

#13. I realized it was all a lie. This life I was living was a pretty picture on the outside, but it wasn't real. On the inside, it was hollow and meaningless and I realized that's not who I wanted to be for the rest of my life.

Sarra Cannon

#14. He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

George R R Martin

#15. This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

Lauren Oliver

#16. It's strange. How hollow i feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I'm one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter, the ones that were nothing more than a sweet shell encapsulating a world of nothing. I'm like that. I encapsulate a world of nothing.

Tahereh Mafi

#17. Was it home, the mercury-lit street? Was he returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory in whose bulk slept, latent, exquisite shapes of chessmen, backscratchers, hollow open-work Chinese spheres nested one inside the other?

Thomas Pynchon

#18. Remembering that moment stirs something inside -- anger, at first, and then a deep, hollow sadness that ripples through me in its own spiderweb pattern.

Jeff Garvin

#19. I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.

Beatrice Sparks

#20. I was a vacant room. Inside, the music produces only a dry, hollow echo.

Haruki Murakami

#21. We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this.

Umberto Eco

#22. The bridge was hollow, and a hollow was inside the bridge.

Ransom Riggs

#23. Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

Anthony Of Padua

#24. 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

#25. Kite spends three minutes trying to calm me down - 'Dutch! Dutch!' - and then just hugs me with his huge arms, so I am completely wrapped up, and inside him, like an owl inside a hollow tree. This is my most enjoyable crying ever - if all crying were this pleasant, I would do it more often.

Caitlin Moran

#26. People have come, surpassed my soul and left.
I have become hollow and the hollow space inside, hurts.

Aniket More

#27. Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

Marlene Van Niekerk

#28. A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

Robert Jordan

#29. Things are just that - things. They don't make us who we are. They make us look better on the outside, even when we're hollow on the inside. They're an illusion - the shiny objects that distract us from the really important things.

Chelle Bliss

#30. There is this hollow place inside of me, where my faith in you used to be.

R.K. Lilley

#31. I tried to whip some feelings up but the inside of my chest was as hollow as an empty rubbish bin; totally, absolutely dried up, with my poor, tiny heart lying at the bottom like a crushed coke can.

Deborah Kay Davies

#32. I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

David Lynch

#33. The good ones all had that hollow space inside. The empty place where the fire always burns. For something. Call it justice. Call it the need to know. Call it the need to believe that those who are evil will not remain hidden in darkness forever.

Michael Connelly

#34. Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

Violette Leduc

#35. Her heart became a bird, trapped inside the glass box of her chest, flapping violently into wall after invisible wall, crumpling into a heap of broken hollow-bones on the transparent floor.

K.I. Hope

#36. Magick is based on faith. It is the belief that the part of the Gods inside of us is strong enough to do godly work.

Hollow Ryan

#37. Then she set it aside.
(She set everything aside. There was some hollow place inside her that few and grew.)

Genevieve Valentine

#38. The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#39. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy, or integrity. You will be hollow.

George Orwell

#40. I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that?

George R R Martin

#41. Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor."
I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was profound. I continued. "Nuzzle inside the hollow of my bones. Let our breaths mingle as one. Turn liquid for me. Only for me. Bury your essence inside of my soul.

Christina Lee

#42. Winds shake the leaves and for a moment I smell smoke. I concentrate on the scent, but it vanishes into the aroma of rain and tree bark, the way one life can collapse into another and different people can stir within the same body, like bats thrashing inside a secret hollow.

Laura Van Den Berg

#43. Oshima once used the term hollow men. Well, that's exactly what I've become. There's a void inside me, a blank that's slowly expanding, devouring what's left of who I am. I can hear it happening. I'm totally lost, my identity dying. There's no direction where I am, no sky, no ground.

Haruki Murakami

#44. Now I understand how love can come alive inside you, beneath your skin, beneath your flesh and bone, a separate entity, breathing in and out its own special air, expanding to fill all those hollow places that you can't fill by yourself.

Ellen Hopkins

#45. Peace ... Henrietta was not quite sure what it was but she knew it was very important. If one wanted it, Grandfather had told her once, one must not hit back when fate hit hard but must allow the hammer-strokes to batter out a hollow place inside one into which peace, like cool water, could flow.

Elizabeth Goudge

#46. I will never get to tell him I love him, even if my love was never enough. The empty ache grows and throbs in my chest. It's a living and breathing thing inside me. Sucking the air from my lungs, and the warmth from my body. The ache and pain leaves me hollow and cold.

Ashley Jeffery

#47. I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow?

Brandon Sanderson