“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.”

“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

“He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.”

“People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.”

“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.”

“There's a vacancy, won't you come to me
And fill my empty spaces
I'm a motel man in a promised land
That's filled with empty faces
So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams,
It's a place for you to be
There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems
Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy”

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”