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  • Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. -- Voltaire
  • All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. -- Sallust
  • The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. -- Boris Johnson
  • 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
  • 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. -- Voltaire
  • 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. -- Halle Berry
  • When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. -- Stephen Fry
  • Oh, what a void there is in things. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
  • Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. -- Robert Smithson
  • Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . . -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. -- Jean Rostand
  • If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • [I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. -- James Madison
  • We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father. -- Raniero Cantalamessa
  • 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. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something. -- Leo Buscaglia
  • Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another. -- Joseph Campbell
  • Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality- The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything possessing form or color, is naturally void. The Final Reality. The All Good. The All Peaceful. The light. The Radiance. The movement is the fire of life from which we all come. Join it. It is part of you. -- Timothy Leary
  • Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty. -- Adam Kokesh
  • Void of freedom, what would virtue be? -- Alphonse de Lamartine
  • What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou? -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • 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
  • The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void. -- Dave Grohl
  • 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
  • Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. -- George Crabbe
  • 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. -- Will Ferguson
  • Come with me." "Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received. -- Cassandra Clare
  • For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity? -- Sherry Thomas
  • For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given form? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity? -- Sherry Thomas
  • 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
  • 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. -- David Levithan
  • Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • 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
  • And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void. -- Jack Kerouac
  • Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
  • Let's work and rest happily, abandon us to the course of life; let's run out the muddy and rotten water of the daily thinking and within the Void will flow the Gnosis and with it, the Joy for living. -- Samael Aun Weor
  • Oh, what a void there is in things. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
  • Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. -- Mary Shelley
  • The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. -- Arthur Smith
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. -- William H. Seward
  • 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. -- Lysander Spooner
  • 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. -- Jack Black
  • 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.' -- David LaChapelle
  • 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
  • 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. -- Samuel Adams
  • Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women. -- Kim Cattrall
  • In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet. -- Les Dawson
  • In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity. -- Alfonso Cuaron
  • 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
  • I'm proud of the versatility I've had since I was in high school, getting in trouble for all these voices. What happened was that there were so many of these big heroes I played - in 'Dark Void,' 'Assassin's Creed,' 'Shadow Complex,' 'Uncharted,' and 'Prince of Persia' - and they all showed up at about the same time. It got a little ridiculous. -- Nolan North
  • Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos. -- Bernard Of Cluny
  • Your soul fits the void in my soul perfectly. -- Maria V. Snyder
  • Empty vessels can give nothing more than empty advice. -- Charles Lee
  • We become aware of the void as we fill it. -- Antonio Porchia
  • The obstinate miner of the void exploits his fertile mine -- Jean Cocteau
  • None fills the void like the company of a true friend. -- Rishi H Sanghani
  • The horror of the void became once again its own inverted retort. -- Gellu Naum
  • A million miles from nowhere, is better than going nowhere, a million times. -- Anthony Liccione
  • In the absence of an abyss, I filled my invisible void with love. -- Jarod Kintz
  • If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. -- Anthony Liccione
  • Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
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  • Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment -- Munia Khan
  • Where once there was a void,Now at least there are Seeds of splendour,Becalmed belief for another time. -- Scott Hastie
  • as the words grow shorter and the void grows deeper, all that i treasure are memories others have forsaken -- Devjeet Chawdhary
  • 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
  • The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again. -- Danielle Esplin
  • When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
  • I want to do something so hard so easily, and I want to do it with no hands. Only gloves. Love will fill the void. -- Jarod Kintz
  • History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone. -- Sara Sheridan
  • That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love. -- T.F. Hodge
  • When you can see the love of God through your struggles and you don't need another person to fill a void, you're in a pretty good place. -- Jen Stephens
  • After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
  • When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos. -- Mary E. DeMuth
  • A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt. -- Rachel Sontag
  • 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. -- Wilkie Collins
  • Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. -- Wayne Dyer
  • 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. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff with meaningless activity. Everything is disposable, including your relationships--especially your your relationships. -- Rick Yancey
  • ...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaningless itself. -- Joan Didion
  • The word emptiness comes a cross as a word that means dealing with a large void or insecurity within. When the opposite is true. Being in touch with emptiness means being in touch with your inner existence. -- Matthew Donnelly
  • Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions. -- Criss Jami
  • Empty space eventually fills up with something. A void, cultivated in the aftermath of misfortune, begins to attract the wrong kind of attention. Marco knew it was time to leave when disagreeable spirits started roaming freely through the house, as if they owned the place. -- Rahma Krambo
  • There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape. -- Brian Evenson
  • The word 'friend' has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year. -- Alex Morritt
  • As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.[Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777] -- Frederick the Great
  • 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
  • There's no lack of void. -- Samuel Beckett
  • Evil is movement towards void. -- Don DeLillo
  • Nothing exists but atoms and the void. -- Democritus
  • My soul is all an aching void. -- Charles Wesley
  • Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary. -- Leon M. Lederman
  • Every soul craves to fill the void. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Work certainly does help fill a void. -- Judi Dench
  • The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities -- Laozi
  • "The contract's null and void, by the way." -- Richelle Mead
  • No craving void left aching in the soul. -- Alexander Pope
  • Desire is an attempt to feel the void. -- Hamza Yusuf
  • The void can only be filled with love. -- Marty Rubin
  • The last kiss is given to the void. -- Aidan Higgins
  • Put a little love here in my void. -- Fiona Apple
  • Love is just a shout in the void. -- John Green
  • Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void. -- Victor Hugo
  • It is only God who can fill our void. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • It was a strange feeling, like touching a void. -- Haruki Murakami
  • People are scared man, they're scared of the void. -- Joe Rogan
  • C programmers never die. They are just cast into void. -- Alan Perlis
  • It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence. -- Kedar Joshi
  • Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind. -- Albert Einstein
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