“My heart is empty. The emptiness is a mirror turned toward my own face.”— Ingmar Bergman, Antonius Block, amazon.com
“By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.”— Georg Simmel, amazon.com
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Reasons why you feel so empty: You love them when they leave you and you trust them when they deceive you.”— Abirami P. Kurukkal, instagram.com
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Why text them anything at all if every single one of the possible responses you can get will ultimately leave you feeling empty?”— Alexia LaFata, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sending them a text is not going to fix that emptiness inside you tonight. It may be temporarily exciting or helpful or healing. But if you know, deep down, that they’re not the one, sending that text will always be just a bandaid, never a solution.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“You have to suffer through this emptiness... and find what impels you to continue.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I do all this shit for other people! And then I wake up and I'm empty! I have nothing!”— David O. Russell, Matthew Quick, Tiffany, Jennifer Lawrence, amazon.com
“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when…”— Dina Kucera, amazon.com
“If there's nothing missing in my life, then why do these tears come at night?”— Britney Spears, play.spotify.com
“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. [Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.”— Paolo Giordano, amazon.com
“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com