— Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

— Samuel Beckett, from Endgame

“One day you’ll be blind like me. You’ll be sitting here, a speck in the void, in the dark, forever, like me. One day you’ll say to yourself, I’m tired, I’ll sit down, and you’ll go and sit down. Then you’ll say, I’m hungry, I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up. You’ll say, I shouldn’t have sat down, but since I have I’ll sit on a little longer, then I’ll get up and get something to eat. But you won’t get up and you won’t get anything to eat.You’ll look at the wall a while, then you’ll say, I’ll close my eyes, perhaps have a little sleep, after that I’ll feel better, and you’ll close them. And when you open them again there’ll be no wall any more. Infinite emptiness will be all around you, all the resurrected dead of all the ages wouldn’t fill it, and there you’ll be like a little bit of grit in the middle of the steppe. Yes, one day you’ll know what it is, you’ll be like me, except that you won’t have anyone with you, because you won’t have had pity on anyone and because there won’t be anyone left to have pity on you.”

Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

it’s like you’re never there,

In some strange way 

it’s like you’re never there, 

you just float by

crawling in the air.

Empty pockets never held anyone back.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads 

and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale

i do this. time after time after time!

One day, you’ll feel empty

One day, you’ll feel empty while pursuing your goals or your dreams. On those days, just remember the warmth of the people who encouraged you and believed in you. Surely, you’ll be able to keep pushing forward no matter what.

just tired of it.

im no longer going to look for a guy, im not going to try to talk to him first. i wont try to get him to put me in his life. if a guy wants me, he can find me. if he wants to talk, he can talk. if he wants me in his life, he can find a way to put me there.

— Tablo

“I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.”

It won’t fix what’s really wrong.

Look, I know you think you took it away, but it’s still there. Even if I can’t remember why.

I still feel empty, alone and making me forget won’t fix it. It won’t fix what’s really wrong.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

empty feeling

I hate that empty feeling in your chest when you miss someone.

Empty heart and chipped up cup

the hardest thing to do in life is to pretend

the hardest thing to do in life is to pretend to be what you're not. because pretending is hard. lying to yourself every waking hour of everyday isn't easy. i know that i'm lucky and should be grateful for everything i have, what gets me are those things, those people who i have lost, who have left me, those whose life has been pushed away from me. i pretend that they never mattered, that i couldn't be happier, but the truth is i feel so incomplete, so unhappy, so empty of any hope whatsoever. i hate who we’ve all become. 

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.” Friedrich Nietzsche

the missing part of you is with right here with me

Jeremy

I've lost a part

I don't feel empty without you. I just feel like I've lost a part of my heart.

empty

a really big empty place

~Sometimes someone says something really small that can fit into a really big empty place in your heart.~