Top 42 The Hollow Men Quotes
#1. Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.
Sam Keen
#2. Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself ... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.
Anthony Burgess
#3. A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.
T. S. Eliot
#6. The boasts of men about their conquests would seem hollow since it's the vulnerability of women that fetches them their favors..
BS Murthy
#7. 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
#8. I think a good thing to always remember is to just keep your head on straight and don't lose your feet.
Liam Hemsworth
#9. When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
Al Neuharth
#10. 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
#11. He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.
Elizabeth Berg
#12. 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.
William Shakespeare
#13. On moonless nights in haunted hollow
The tongues of beasts, men's blood do swallow
Shape shifting shadows that soon will fade
Leaving lifeless husks in that mountain glade
Swift now close thy sleepy eyes
Hope that your dreams hold no surprise.
Neil Leckman
#14. Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
T. S. Eliot
#15. Like Dad Nelson said, "The time will come that you will need faith, either for yourself, or for some member of your family. And if you haven't kept your faith strong, you'll be at a disadvantage.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#16. Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.
Marilyn Monroe
#17. The "stuffed men" are bound to become more lonely no matter how much they "lean together"; for hollow people do not have a base from which to learn to love.
Rollo May
#18. 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
Lord Byron
#19. He was thinking that the young years behind him, hollow and colourful, had been lived in facile and vacillating cynicism upon the recorded emotions of men long dust.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. Glory?
Glory is for those too weak to find their inner strength, leaving them hollow parasites, feeding on the affection of even lesser men. Glory is for cowards, too afraid to let their names die.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#21. The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?
Peter Elbow
#22. People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
L. Neil Smith
#23. To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
Matthew Arnold
#24. Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.
Richard Barnet
#25. It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain
Sharp words like daggers placed it here
To fill with hurt
In filling it grew heavy and drug me down
For to not feel is not to live
Until I rest at last in dirt
The worst of you got the best of me ...
Neil Leckman
#26. Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
T. S. Eliot
#27. I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.
Jerri Nielsen
#28. Ultimately,we hear things because we cannot see everything.
Slavoj Zizek
#29. Why did it have to happen?'It was one more hollow echo to the question humanity had been asking for millenniums, the question men were seemingly born to ask.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. 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
#31. I have found that the less expectation you put on others, the more happiness you will find with them and yourself.
K.L. Toth
#32. Achilles makes a sound like choking. "There are no bargains between lions and men. I will kill you and eat you raw." His spearpoint flies in a dark whirlwind, bright as the evening-star, to catch the hollow at Hector's throat.
Madeline Miller
#33. Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel ...
Sathya Sai Baba
#34. There is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others
Karen Armstrong
#35. How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
Blaise Pascal
#36. It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.
Pope Benedict XVI
#37. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
Ambrose Bierce
#39. Status is hollow without money, words are useless without actions, beauty is ephemeral without heart, and men are incomplete without women. Nowadays, why are men marrying men then?'
My no.7th book is coming soon....!
Tim I. Gurung
#40. To be more precise: although philosophical questions concern us all, we do not all become philosophers.
Jostein Gaarder
#41. We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#42. Soaked in pain
my suits remain standing
when I take them off -
hollow men beside the closet,
a museum of days.
Chad Sweeney
