Void Quotes - Page 9

• Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.

  Joseph Joubert

  Order, People, Profound

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• The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

  Glenn Gould

  Doe, Forget, Trouble

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 5, 1984.

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• The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.

  Chanakya

  Heart, Men, House

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• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Envy, Age

  William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.22

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• Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

  Allan Bloom

  Appreciate, Sublime, Doe

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 280, 1990.

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• The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

  Henry Adams

  Crush, Attitude, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.283, Booklassic

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• The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

  Chanakya

  Men, Merit, May

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• I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, "Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school." I had a great high-school experience.

  Jonah Hill

  School, Men, Issues

  "Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 13, 2012.

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• There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Leadership, Country, Thinking

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• It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

  Haruki Murakami

  Touching, Feelings, Strange

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.17, Random House

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• You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.

  Amaury Nolasco

  Sorry, Grandma, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

  Marie Osmond

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Thinking

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• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Writing, Creating, Doe

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Hands, Creating

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• There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

  Wole Soyinka

  Home, Men, Race

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Feb 05, 2015

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• I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

  Steve Vai

  Commitment, Artist, Breathing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ʺThe contractʹs null and void, by the way.ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Null, Way, Contracts

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• Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Fall, Writing, Hands

  Diary entry for January/February 1918, No. 1104. "The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918", p. 387, 1968.

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• What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Race

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

  Janet Jackson

  Regret, Who I Am, Feel Good

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• Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

  Franz Kafka

  Art, Lying, Dark

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

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• Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even though it's futile. Even though it's way past too late.

  Alyson Noel

  Moving, Past, Names

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• When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because we see clearly. A little later, intelligence introduces its impeding contrivances. It brings the little toys which man invents in order to hide the void. It is then that we think we are seeing clearly. We attribute our uneasiness to the miasmas of the brain as it passes from dream to reality.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dream, Animal, Reality

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• Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like heroes and kings. They belonged in stories. They belonged out there. Taborlin the Great called up fire and lightning to destroy demons. Tehlu broke them in his hands and sent them howling into the nameless void. Your childhood friend didn’t stomp one to death on the road to Baedn-Bryt. It was ridiculous.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kings, Hero, Angel

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• Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Faith, Fall, Rocks

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.139, tredition

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