Void Quotes - page 3

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess. (Robertson Davies)
Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. View quote
George Kubler
An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void. View quote
James Otis
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. View quote
Lord Byron
We become aware of the void as we fill it. View quote
Antonio Porchia
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth. View quote
Walter Benjamin
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it. View quote
Matthew Henry
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher. View quote
R. S. Thomas
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. View quote
Voltaire
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. View quote
Allan Bloom
If states themselves are less able to handle various responsibilities, this leaves open the possibility of the emergence of some form of global governance to fill the void. (George Ritzer)
He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine. View quote
Sebastian Faulks
With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better. View quote
Will Ferguson
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. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void. View quote
Daniel Pinchbeck
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. View quote
Diane Setterfield
Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing. View quote
David Levithan
True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed. View quote
Jack Kornfield
When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started. (Alexander Wang)
You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void. View quote
David LaChapelle
Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun. View quote
Saul Williams
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. View quote
Amaury Nolasco