#hollow

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#calmed #centered #down #friends #get

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva] ↗

— Albert Einstein

#enjoyment #everything #fulfillment #hollow #life

Is that what you were doing in my room?” he asks after a moment. I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? “Yes. I was on assignment.” “I was your assignment?” “Yes.” He hesitates a moment, then grins. “That’s kind of hot. ↗

— Rachel Morgan

#faerie-guardian #funny #funny

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#death

Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#reality #stories #life

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#fame #ground #hollow #kind #rest

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#hallows #his #hollows #law #life

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. ↗

— Sean O'Casey

#chances #go #hallows #his #hollows

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. ↗

— Laura Riding

#circumference #criticism #draw #hollow #like

Did you really think I wouldn’t look for you?” “Honestly? Yes. You seemed a little busy losing your tongue down someone else’s throat. ↗

— Rachel Morgan

#faerie-guardian #business