“He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.”

— Dean Koontz , book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 64; words of former policeman Thomas Vanadium

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American author 1945

Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 64; words of former policeman Thomas Vanadium

“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Let's hear it for the essential daily briefing, however hollow and empty it might be. We'll do it.”

Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense

Meeting with Media Pool Bureau Chiefs October 18, 2001 http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2001/t10192001_t1018bc.html
2000s

“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.”

T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men (1925)

“Now THERE'S a hollow state to be in, isn't it — to believe in God and get no sign that He's there.”

Joseph Heller book God Knows

God Knows (1984)

“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.”

Douglas Coupland book Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

“When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 4

“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”

Gene Wolfe book There Are Doors

Source: There Are Doors

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things only because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.”

Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon

Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

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