A friendless heart is like a hollow shell,
That sighs o'er its own emptiness. [ Thomas Hood ]

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. [ Alexander Pope ]

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with, the echoes of the heart. [ J. F. Boyes ]

All cares appear twice as large as they really are, owing to their emptiness and darkness; and so is it with the grave. [ Richter ]

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. [ Carlyle ]

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]