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• Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Two, Darkness, Sparks

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• Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

  Caroline Knapp

  Emotional, Consumerism, Thrive

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• Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

  Epicurus

  Numbers, Infinity, Atoms

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Heart, Past, Thinking

  "Sheryl Sandberg Offers Grieving Guidance, Calls for Support Systems After Husband's Death" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 3, 2015.

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• I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.

  Ingrid Weir

  Healing, Thinking, Trying

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• We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Reality, Thinking

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• People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

  Emmett Shear

  Talking, People, Silence

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• Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.

  Amanda Palmer

  Pain

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• Oh, what a void there is in things.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

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• Evil is movement towards void.

  Don DeLillo

  Evil, Movement

  "Great Jones Street". Book by Don DeLillo, 1973.

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• To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

  Alan Watts

  Death, Space, Secret

  Alan Watts (2000). “What is Zen?”, p.81, New World Library

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• The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Space, Giving

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Space, Adrift

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 15, 2014

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• When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Clouds, Spirit, Clear

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.45, Bottom of the Hill

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• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Rejection, Fantasy, Deny

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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• Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Believe, Evil, Gains

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• When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

  Bob Dylan

  Evil, Mud, Wilderness

  Song: Shelter from the Storm

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• Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Perfect, Joy

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII”

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• My soul is all an aching void.

  Charles Wesley

  Soul, My Soul

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.138, Ravenio Books

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• Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Purpose

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• It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

  Simone Weil

  Grace, Form, Fill The Void

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• And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Heart, Wind

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.459, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

  Joe Rogan

  Men, People, Scared

  "The Joe Rogan Experience". Podcast #211, 2012.

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• For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Fun, Light, Play

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.63, Wesleyan University Press

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• Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Rely Upon, Literature, Emotion

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