Hollow Victory Quotes

Even if you win the rat-race, you’re still a rat.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.