Void Quotes - Page 21

• Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Twilight, Space

  Rod Serling (1990). “The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories”, TV Books Incorporated

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• Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Time, Men

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• Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.

  Tilda Swinton

  Truth Is, Filled, Wells

  Source: www.nerve.com

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• His virtues walked their narrow round,
  Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
  And sure the Eternal Master found
  The single talent well employed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Talent, Virtue, Made

  Samuel Johnson (1816). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life”, p.109

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• Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

  Christopher Wren

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100

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• Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhist, Past, Views

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

  George Herbert

  Men

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.373

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• I do have a concern that if we just say no Trans-Pacific Partnership, we`re done, we`re ignoring the region, and then, yes, I think we`re creating a void for China, but that is not what the president [Donald Trump] is saying.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Creating, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Regret, Life Changing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank circle of the void, the cycle comes back to a river flowing by the roots of a tree (both strong symbols of nature, the life-force, the unconscious) and to the wanderer returning to the market place, which is the realm of human society and activity.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Strong, Circles, Roots

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Able, Like Her

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• Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.

  Richard Meier

  Ideas, White, Differences

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.

  Italo Calvino

  Opposites, Space, Duration

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• Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

  Ann Voskamp

  Loss, Sight, Black

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.16, Zondervan

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• Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Girl, Laughter, Heart

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). “Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Death, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise

  Jack Kerouac

  Moving, Fall, Angel

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• The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

  Epicurus

  Soul, Term

  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 don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

  George Shearing

  Thinking, Roots, Foundation

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• It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you have passed in the halls of your high school. It got me thinking, 'Well, what are some novels that are about female sexual psychopaths? I really didn't have many references for that, and I felt like that was a void in transgressive literature that I wanted to fill.'

  Alissa Nutting

  School, Thinking, One Day

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Sound, Doe

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• Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.

  Siegfried Kracauer

  Wind, Ideas, Path

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• Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Sadness, Leaving, Soul

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• I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again.

  Rod Serling

  Suicide, Thinking, Design

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.

  Jonathan Meades

  Art, Thinking, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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