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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.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mother Inspiring Like You Function Void Mothers Day Sad Things

Author:Marie Osmond

“For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.”

Men Should Has Beens Reason Born Destruction Should Have Neighbor Dumb Void Providence Should Have Been

Author:Quintilian

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

Humans Interest Situation Void Parades

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“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.”

Knows Men Father Dad Filled My Dad Void

Author:Halle Berry

“Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.”

Ifs Earth Form Space Strange Waste Empty Mere Void

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

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

Writing Doe Creating Chaos Invention Void Originality Inventing

Book:Frankenstein

Source: Frankenstein

“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.”

People Ifs Art Hands Fine Creating Communicate Hopefully Relate Void Transforming

Author:Patti Smith

“Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.”

Matter Artist Museums Void Visiting

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“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?”

Ifs Men World Giving Soul Home Spirit Courses Race Rivers Void Shelter Shells Boulders Tortoises

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.”

Kind Real Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Highest Atheist Height Take Me Void

Author:Jack Black

“If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.”

Ifs Men Two Individual Natural Justice Rights Thirds Murder Commit Contracts Void Theft Robbery Natural Rights Unlawful Natural Justice

Book:The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second

Source: The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second

“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.”

Knows Long Artist Nations Term Common Talent Huge Eating Commitment Inspired Labels Breathing Long Term Void Vehicle

Author:Steve Vai

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

Inspirational Causes Change Chance Fate Determination Void Chances Are Fate Destiny Fate And Destiny

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“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.”

Should Pleasure Known Air Planets Angel Void Angelic Abode My Angel Fill The Void My Guardian Angel

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”

Inspirational Sin Memorable Void Fill The Void

Author:Simone Weil

“A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.”

Political House Fun Sides Class Reflection Mirrors Moved Entertainment Folly Divides Void Sage Partisans Noisy

Author:James Wolcott

“It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.”

Artist Sound Chance Style Former Evolve Void Borrowed Null Random Chance

Author:Greg Graffin

“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.”

Forget Sea Personality Letting Go Infinite Bitter Attributes Void Unchanging Unchangeable

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”

People Want Reason Past Political Interest Masters Insult Void Provoking Shouting Better Future Apathetic Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”

Ifs Life Lost Left Knowing Goes On Mark Scar Void Lost You Cold Mountain

Book:Cold Mountain: A Novel

Source: Cold Mountain: A Novel

“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.”

Source: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

“This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.”

“Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.”

Source: The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes

“By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!”

Feels Said Eye Running Able Three Hours Morning Calling Computer Yesterday Routine Void Hopelessness Email Consuming Unimportant Prospects Scapegoat

Author:Tim Ferriss

“To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.”

Kind Moments Space Accepting Crosses Opposites Relation Gaps Void Duration

Author:Italo Calvino

“You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.”

Trying I Can Sometimes Sleep Mines Absence Faithful Void Without You Disturbed Footsteps Being Faithful Your Absence

Author:Rumi

“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise”

“Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.”

Heart Long Life Is Girl Mines Broken Laughter Illness Scar Void Cried Corn Radiant Love And Laughter Ada

Book:Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle

Source: Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”

Feels Heart Soul Spiritual Ready Filled Your Soul Live By Candle Void Spiritual Wisdom Sufi Muslim Spiritual Awakening Inspirational Sufi Kindling Spiritual Light Sufi Mystic

Author:Rumi

“If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.”

Ifs Ends Jobs Poor Pages Management Unions Contracts Void Filling Poor Management

Author:Eli Broad

“Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.”

Feels Done Death Grief Function Painful Grieving Void Torn Limbs Vivid Bereavement Parting Short Time Amputation

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.”

Ifs Murder Defeat Debt Void Artemis Fowl Null

Book:Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

Source: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

“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.”

Book:Wyvernhail: The Kiesha'ra: Volume Five

Source: Wyvernhail: The Kiesha'ra: Volume Five

“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”

Firsts Believe Said Soul Lasts Suffering Names I Believe Dark My Own One Thing Stones Vanity Spokes Bitterness Void Repent Oblivion Not Alone Monstrous Slander Alone In The Dark

Author:Cormac McCarthy

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

People Ifs Believe Said Important Seems Silence Needed Quiet Filled Void

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.”

Pain Turns Left Memories Emptiness Void Equations Nameless

Author:Roberto Bolano

“He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.”

Ifs World Heart Water Silence Air Wind Listening Cold My Heart Late Stones Breaths Lays Woods Void Ashes Trembling Bleak Bedrock

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”

Looks Littles Self Light Night Evil Speak Language Stars Cold Moon Surface Lovely Climbs Void Primitive Savages

Book:False Memory

Source: False Memory

“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”

People Knows Hard Appreciate Alcohol Void Dread Faith In God Heroin Promiscuity Opiates Fill The Void

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.”

Mind Humans Age Sleep Half Known Doubt Disease Victim Instruments Chaos Average Ill Awake Sensations Human Mind Void Suggestions Compulsion Adjustment Unimaginable

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”

Knows Men Walks Danger About Yourself Void Nothingness

Book:Tsotsi

Source: Tsotsi

“All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.”

Stills Night Turns Sleep Cities Taken Cutting Logic Corners Speed Void Unfolding Colorless

Book:Neuromancer

Source: Neuromancer

“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.”

Writing Art Important Book Ideas Ends Hands Process Creativity Magic Materials Empty Gold Important Things Void Material Things

Author:Alan Moore

“The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.”

“Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winter's cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two of them stared at one another and then, as if they were destined to, thay began to lean into one another, Leven closed his eyes. "What are you doing?" Geth asked concerned. Winter closed his eyes too and leaned close. Both of them looked panicked and out of control, but it didn't stop them from moving closer and kissing each other. Clover's jaw dropped and he pulled something out of his void just so he could let go of it in shock.”

Ifs Two Eye Moving Letting Go Kissing Red Concerned Green Winter His Eyes Shock Void Cheeks Burned Destined Green Eyes Clovers Moving Closer

Author:Obert Skye

“The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)

“Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into the enemy’s strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don’t allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit." -Richard Rahl”

Important Spirit Purpose Fighting Enemy Cutting Duty Commitment Flow Mercy Breaths Depth Hunger Committed Crush Gaps Void Bewilderment No Commitment

Author:Terry Goodkind

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”

Soul Might Law Imagination Natural Space Grace Movement Empty Exception Controlled Void Gravity Filling Empty Space Filling Up

Author:Simone Weil

“I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.”

Men Believe Games Difficult Fashion Tests Safety Prize Capture Void Delicious Petty Unworthy

Author:Tom Robbins