Void Quotes - Page 12

• Between the finite and the infinite
  The missing link of Love has left a void.
  Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
  In one continued chain of endless life.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Missing, Heaven

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1367, Delphi Classics

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• If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

  Eli Broad

  Jobs, Poor Management, Unions

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• There's no lack of void.

  Samuel Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

  Jack Black

  Spiritual, Atheist, Real

  "Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. April 23, 2012.

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• Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

  Fabien Cousteau

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

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• Well, mi amore, this is awesome news! Let's get right on that," said Kami, and began to undo the buttons of her blouse. She looked down at the red buttons slipping out one by one from the black fabric of her shirt. She only had eight buttons, and there went the fourth. Jared sucked breath out of a horrified void and shouted, "stop that!" He angled himself to protect her from the eyes of a crowd that was not there. He hesitated, possibly because now he had a view directly down into shadows and curves.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, Curves, Eight

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.78, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.

  J.R. Ward

  Emotion, Empty, Holes

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1530, Penguin

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• In the beginning Marvel created the Bullpen and the Style. And the Bullpen was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the Artists. And the Spirit of Marvel said, Let there be The Fantasic Four. And there was The Fantasic Four. And Marvel saw The Fantasic Four. And it was good.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, Darkness, Style

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• A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Self, Law

  Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.417

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• My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Heart, My Heart, Venus In Furs

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.121, Cosimo Classics

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• Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation, sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then, faithfully to thy own soul. I believe, therefore I am justified; I am justified, therefore I am sanctified; I am sanctified, therefore I am called; I am called, therefore I am elected; I am elected, therefore I shall be saved. Oh! settled comfort of joy, which ten thousand devils shall never make void.

  Thomas Adams

  Believe, Cities, Rivers

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• I felt like there was a void in the marketplace in girl groups. Musically, there is something truly exciting about harmonies in one song. A group has more to offer.

  Kelly Rowland

  Girl, Song, Groups

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• There's such a void in the medical system. When my husband was sick, it became very apparent to me that the nurses were doing the doctor's job, and the doctors were doing the disease job, so no one was caring for the patient and the loved one.

  Donna Karan

  Jobs, Husband, Caring

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• I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Thinking, Discipline, Trying

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything.

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Names, Giving

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.487, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that's why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be.

  Christopher Allsopp

  Morning, Night, Thinking

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• The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Dream, Inspiration, Artist

  "Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons". Book by Igor Stravinsky, 1947.

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• Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Baby, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.

  Taraka Larson

  Spiritual, World, Aspect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

  William Wilberforce

  Sports, Years, Use

  William Wilberforce (1835). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real Christians”, p.159

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• Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

  Franz Kafka

  Party, Judging, World

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Too Much, Spontaneity

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.116, Modern Library

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• The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Eye, Acceptance

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Marriage, Smart, Men

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• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Spring, Fall

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