Quotes About The Void

#1. The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

Kazimir Malevich

#2. To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.

Georges Perec

#3. 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.

Levi-Strauss

#4. Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.

Emil Cioran

#5. There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

Heinz Pagels

#6. Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope.

Clive Barker

#7. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.

Pitigrilli

#8. Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

William Barrett

#9. God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hands the whole world, while His Spirit is able to fill the void in man's heart.

Billy Graham

#10. Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of
children tumble into the void.

Roberto Bolano

#11. He's not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he's come to wither and rot inside. But she's still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.

Llarjme

#12. What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end's impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?

Teo Yi Han

#13. Went back on to the bridge to watch over the tiny flashing lights and figures that charted the ship's progress through the void.

Douglas Adams

#14. There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

Joseph Campbell

#15. But their discovery of the void brings with it new implications: not only that they must continue on in their actions and diligence, no longer considered as duties but as gratuitous, senseless routines, but also the exhilarating realization that all is nothing but a game.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#16. The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void

Ryan Holiday

#17. Since the last question, also the first one, the quesiton of death, offers us the interesting alternatives of disintegrating ourselves by our own wills in proof of our "freedom," or the acknowledging that we owe a human life to this waking spell of existence, regardless of the void.

Saul Bellow

#18. I let go of the tenuous control I had and scream into the void. Without lungs you can scream forever, and I do.

Tade Thompson

#19. It's not only just difficult but very complicated to loose someone very close to you, the person goes away but the void remains to kill the living until they learnt to let go.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#20. For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

Gertrude Diamant

#21. Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Barnett Newman

#22. The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.

Aristotle.

#23. This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.

Neil Gaiman

#24. All of my questions are answered by silence. Into the void comes a clear, single thought. I've been abducted.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#25. Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and like talking. Leave us alone for any length of time, and we start filling the void with supernatural creatures.

Guy De Maupassant

#26. The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

Matthew Arnold

#27. ...please don't throw any more rocks at the barrier keeping the demonic hordes of the void from pouring over the world.

Garon Whited

#28. William looked up ... through his tears ... past the catwalk and lights ... past the sky ... through the dark and clouds and stars and into the void where he once knew God existed, then turned himself outside-in, alone, and asked, 'Why?

Jake Vander Ark

#29. Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

John Zerzan

#30. When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Piers Anthony

#31. Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

Josh Fox

#32. 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

#33. He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and strength and yearning. And she wonders why she ever doubted their relationship. Why she let Julian's soothing touch coax her into loving him too. Gage is everything. Gage is hers.

Laura Kreitzer

#34. If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

Jason Evert

#35. The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

Frederick Franck

#36. An art dies when it describes itself instead of life - when it turns from the expression of man's feelings in the void, to a mere description of the void.

Jack Kerouac

#37. Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen.

Samuel Beckett

#38. The easy part is the ray's 500-second speed-of-light jaunt from the Sun to Earth, through the void of interplanetary space. The hard part is the light's million-year adventure to get from the Sun's center to its surface.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#39. Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Jindrich Styrsky

#40. We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Antonio Porchia

#41. Me: *stares into the void*

The Void: *stares back*

Me: *winks*

The Void: *blushes*

Unknown

#42. Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky and disappeared into the void.
-Narrator, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project

Daniel P. Douglas

#43. As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

A.W. Tozer

#44. 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

#45. The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative

Dean Cavanagh

#46. 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

#47. As God was expunged from American life, idols came in to fill the void; idols of sensuality, idols of greed, of money, of success, comfort, materialism, pleasure, sexual immorality, self-worship, self-obsession. The sacred increasingly disappeared, and the profane took its place.

Jonathan Cahn

#48. 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

#49. Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?"
"By leaping into the Void? Not really.

Cassandra Clare

#50. In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother's feelings for her.

Sonja Yoerg

#51. Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

Jok Church

#52. Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.

Albert Pike

#53. Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

Democritus

#54. Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Rod Taylor

#55. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#56. The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.

Tyler Knight

#57. But as nothing, western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to westernize amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting, leading families like mine, otherwise glad of republican progress, to furnish their houses like museums.

Orhan Pamuk

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

Jean Rostand

#59. Late afternoon, it was I not the void that changed.

Jack Kerouac

#60. Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

Bryant H. McGill

#61. If you'd managed to force it open, you would have made a direct path between the interior of the Peerless and the void, which is something we try to discourage.

Greg Egan

#62. To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means ... I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it.

Italo Calvino

#63. Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.

Jim Harrison

#64. Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother. Thank you for my laughter. Thank you for my friend.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#65. Great men, they're not like you or me. They have other needs. Other rhythms. It's what sets them apart. But sometimes they go so far into the void we lose sight of them. They lose sight of us.

James S.A. Corey

#66. For you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're only left with your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not.

Charles Frazier

#67. In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

Miyamoto Musashi

#68. No amount of money or recognition could fill the void in a person's heart the way Jesus' love did.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#69. Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Emile M. Cioran

#70. Your Majesty," Durzo said gravely. "A man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears." - Durzo Blint

Brent Weeks

#71. I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty
and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

Stephane Mallarme

#72. There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come; the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#73. Just like using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain can -- and does -- lead to addiction, using social media to fill the void of relationships, or other needs, often leads to addiction, as well.

Mandy J. Hoffman

#74. It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, until it's all over and the dreaded book funk sets in. Find the next best thing to fill the void, then repeat steps one through three as necessary.

Rachael Wade

#75. I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#76. This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.

Frederick Lenz

#77. 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

#78. The sound did not hide the void, but it filled it with a kind of light: nothing that would stop you from falling, but maybe stop you from being so afraid.

Padma Viswanathan

#79. I love her. She fills the void. She's my soul.

Abbi Glines

#80. The Void is both the source of nothingness and, at the very same time, the source of everythingness. In short, the void is the limitless context in which your entire world is both appearing and disappearing.

Chuck Hillig

#81. There is only one passion that can help us control the many other passions that plague us; that is the passion to know and obey God. When we get out of touch with Christ, we begin touching the things of the world, trying to fill the void that human flesh craves.

Billy Graham

#82. Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

Henry Miller

#83. I take a deep breath. It doesn't begin to fill the void in my chest, a void that's been present since Saturday morning, a painful hollow reminder of my loss.

E.L. James

#84. 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

#85. Those few seconds when you're awake but empty. You forget where you are. What you are now, what you were before. It's all breath and heartbeat and blood moving. Like being in your mother's womb again. The peace of the void.

Rick Yancey

#86. 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

#87. Yes, everybody's angry when it comes to commuting, and in a society in which racism is no longer acceptable, prejudice based on transport has rushed in to fill the void.

BikeSnobNYC

#88. The pornologue's mantric (as is the Athanasian Creed, for that matter) sucking her down to a level of herself where no questions are asked, where her history evaporates, where her self bleeds painlessly into the void.

Glen Duncan

#89. What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.

Gustave Flaubert

#90. The facility of the entrance into another world is an illusion: you start writing in a rush, anticipating the happiness of a future reading, and the void yawns on the white page.

Italo Calvino

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

Joe Rogan

#92. Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

C.S. Lewis

#93. I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.

Rachel Hartman

#94. Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

William James

#95. Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Tom Hanks

#96. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.

Cormac McCarthy

#97. Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Hamza Yusuf

#98. To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.

Dennis Merritt Jones

#99. 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

#100. Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

Gilbert K. Chesterton