Hollow Feeling Quotes

It’s so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling — that really hollowed-out feeling.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

There was a hole inside her, and it twisted.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

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.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.