Void Quotes

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. (Emil Cioran)
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. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. View quote
Boris Johnson
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. View quote
Norman Mailer
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. View quote
Emil Cioran
He who is void of virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all Regard for his Country. There is seldom an Instance of a Man guilty of betraying his Country, who had not before lost the Feeling of moral Obligations in his private Connections. View quote
Samuel Adams
The whole Scotch nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. View quote
Horace Walpole
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception. (Tariq Ali)
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. View quote
William Cowper
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
For someone admitting guilt she sounded remarkably void of repentance. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
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? View quote
Wole Soyinka
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
Does something truly speak to me from beyond the void, or is it merely my own desire? View quote
Norman Spinrad
No, I don't live in heartache. I don't cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And-like it or not-I still think about her every single day. View quote
Harlan Coben
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come. View quote
William James
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid. (Charlotte Brontë)
Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, [Beckmann lived and worked in the heart of Amsterdam during World War 2. ] an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god. View quote
Max Beckmann
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
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. View quote
Henry Miller
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. View quote
Susan B. Anthony