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• I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

  Charles Durning

  Decades

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• There is an emptiness inside of me -- a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.

  Hope Edelman

  Mother, Strong, Love You

  Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Earth, Missions, Inside And Outside

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• Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Space, Midnight, Cold

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• I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

  Jean Rostand

  Parades, Interest, Situation

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Routine, Looks, Purpose

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• People are scared to empty their minds
  fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.
  What they don't realize is that
  their own mind is the void.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Spiritual, Wisdom, People

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Men, Darkness, Return

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• When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

  Stephen Fry

  House, Despair, Looks

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• Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, People, Silence

  Twitter post from May 29, 2012

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• Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality- The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything possessing form or color, is naturally void. The Final Reality. The All Good. The All Peaceful. The light. The Radiance. The movement is the fire of life from which we all come. Join it. It is part of you.

  Timothy Leary

  Reality, Color, Fire

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• We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek the word “chaos” means “gaping void” or “yawning emptiness.” The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Mean, Yawning

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• Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Museums, Matter

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Heart, Men

  "Fictional character: Antonius Block". "The Seventh Seal", 1957.

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• I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

  Halle Berry

  Dad, Father, Men

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

  Richard Rohr

  Mirrors, Way, Degrees

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• We are not. We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Return

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2007). “Wyvernhail: The Kiesha'ra: Volume Five”, p.4, Delacorte Press

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• There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.

  Rumi

  Love, Fire, Soul

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• When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Mysterious Things, Serendipity, Paint

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• God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite Potentiality and source or 'void-ness' prior to form.

  David Hawkins

  Infinite, Creation, Source

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• It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

  Voltaire

  Angel, Air, Pleasure

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2868, Delphi Classics

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• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Ideas, Voice

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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