Whohathmeasured thewatersinthehollowof hishand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 40:12.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Hollow Men'.

Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So follow me, follow, Down to the hollow, And there let us wallow In glorious mud.

-Flanagan, Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop
  'The Hippopotamus'.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more formsöhollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

-Thurber,James Grover
  In the NewYorkTimes Magazine,7 Dec.