Hollow..

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
--Billy Graham quotes