Void famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
-- Alan Perlis -
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
-- Alexander Pope -
When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
-- Amanda Palmer -
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.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
We become aware of the void as we fill it.
-- Antonio Porchia -
For no part of Creation is left void of him: he has filled all things everywhere...
-- Athanasius of Alexandria -
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.
-- Athol Fugard -
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
-- August Strindberg -
Oh, what a void there is in things.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
-- Boris Johnson -
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 -
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.
-- Bruce Lee -
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.
-- Buddhadasa -
The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.
-- C. Northcote Parkinson -
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
-- Charles Durning -
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)
-- Charles Stross -
Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.
-- Christopher Wren -
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future
-- Daniel Libeskind -
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.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck -
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
-- Diane Setterfield -
What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.
-- Eleanor Antin -
Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.
-- Elizabeth Berkley -
...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
-- Ezra Pound -
I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.
-- Fred Ward -
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 -
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 to maintain the existence of Nothing.
-- Frederick The Great -
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.
-- Galileo Galilei -
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
-- Gary Snyder -
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 -
The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.
-- Glenn Gould -
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.
-- Greg Graffin -
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 -
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
-- Hans Arp -
Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.
-- Harry Mulisch -
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 -
All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.
-- Haruki Murakami -
I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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 -
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.
-- Helene Cixous -
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void
-- Hervey Allen -
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
-- Horace Walpole -
So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.
-- Iris Murdoch -
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
-- Iris Murdoch -
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
-- Irvin D. Yalom -
Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.
-- Izaak Walton -
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.
-- James Madison -
An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.
-- James Otis -
Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.
-- Jane Hamilton -
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
-- Jean Rostand -
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.
-- Jeet Aulakh -
People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
-- Jennifer Connelly -
Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.
-- Jo Nesbo -
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.
-- Johann Gottfried Seume -
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
-- Johannes Kepler -
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.
-- John Dewey -
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.
-- John Marshall -
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
-- John Marshall -
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
-- John Milton -
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
-- John Ralston Saul -
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
-- John Zerzan -
Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.
-- Jose Saramago -
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
-- Jules Renard -
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.
-- Kedar Joshi -
The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
-- Kevin Plank -
For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.
-- Laura Furman -
Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.
-- Leon M. Lederman -
Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.
-- Leonid Andreyev -
My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.
-- Liv Ullmann -
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
-- Lord Acton -
Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.
-- Low Thia Khiang -
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
-- Lucretius -
If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.
-- Madeline Kahn -
Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.
-- Mahmud Shabistari -
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 -
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.
-- Marie Osmond -
Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.
-- Mel Torme -
Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “voidâ€. Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they’ll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they’re nowhere to be found.
-- Nicole McKay -
The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.
-- Olaf Stapledon -
I know the void, the void knows me. It keeps us weak; the void told me.
-- Planningtorock -
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.
-- Quintilian -
In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void.
-- Ralph Blum -
You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it...
-- Richard Bandler -
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.
-- Roberto Bolano -
Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
-- Saul Williams -
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
-- Sebastian Faulks
