Hollowness Quotes

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

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?