Quotes about Hollowness
Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- Job 15:31
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
- Isaiah 41:29
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
- 2 Peter 2:17
When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl's heart can feel quite hollow and helpless. This is true whether that man is her father, her husband, or even a man whom she deeply respects.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Men who are thoroughly false and hollow, seldom try to hide those vices from themselves; and yet in very act of avowing them, they lay claim to the virtues they feign most to despise
- Charles Dickens
Sin makes us fools. We are easily deceived, attracted to hollow and deceptive philosophy, and enticed by arguments that lead us away from Christ. Sin blinds us to our sin!
- Timothy Lane
We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces
- Oscar Wilde
Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.
- Dan Allender
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- St. Anthony of Padua
I went out the door and suddenly I felt lonely and empty. I had treated seeing Catherine very lightly, I had gotten somewhat drunk and had nearly forgotten to come but when I could not see her there I was feeling lonely and hollow.
- Ernest Hemingway
Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
- Ravi Zacharias