A Quote by Mason Cooley

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Mason Cooley

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About Discourse Failure Hollowness Love Silent Success

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

Mason Cooley

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness--an incompleteness--in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it.

Willard Gaylin

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

William Goldman

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Charles Spurgeon

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

Philip Hensher

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Paul Wellstone

For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.

Tina Brown

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

Anne Lamott

In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

Rumi

If you listen to what Trump says, you will understand the hollowness. Even a top-ranking nation like America is having a leadership crisis.

N. Chandrababu Naidu

Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.

Marni Jackson

The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.