Void Quotations | Page 3

It's a void that everybody thought we had and if this is us addressing it, which we all believe it is, maybe it'll give us a bit of a boost. He came up big for us in a couple of games in the conference final. He's a guy who wants the opportunity and thrives on the opportunity.

Those three have stepped up to fill the void Katie left. Losing Katie could have been a blow to our program, but those three have kept the morale high.

This is the most devastating feeling that I have ever felt. It's just an emptiness inside of you, a void that can't be healed.

There's a void there right now. But we've got some potential.

I felt really small and insignificant being surrounded by that scale of destruction and the void of life that was all around me.

I don't think there's any question they are going to pick up some market share position in the back half of the year and the spring of 2001, ... The reason for that is a significant improvement in terms of the styling content of their product line. We're seeing a renewed consumer interest in athletic footwear overall, and they're filling a fairly large void in the marketplace right now.

For the Amex, which has been casting around for a role for itself, microcaps fill a crucial void - a 'niche' that Amex officials feel has been neglected.

He became like a loving friend, ... No, I feel in some ways he's like my father now. I wish I could have known him; I feel there's a void in my life that I never did know him. It's strange having an attachment to this dead man, but . . .

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.

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.

Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.

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

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

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

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.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

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.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

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.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.

Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

Love is just a shout in the void.

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.

It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

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.

This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.

That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.

The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

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.

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

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.

And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

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.

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.

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.

...recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void...

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

I felt like there was a void in the marketplace in girl groups. Musically, there is something truly exciting about harmonies in one song. A group has more to offer.

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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.

Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

ʺThe contractʹs null and void, by the way.ʺ

The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.

When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

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.

There's no lack of void.

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.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

Immoral laws are doubtless void, and should not be obeyed.

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.

The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things. So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things. The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.' The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.' Tao is the source of both. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through

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.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

No craving void left aching in the soul.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! / How sweet their memory still! / But they have left an aching void / The world can never fill.

We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain

In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

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.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

The void is that which stands right in the middle of 'this' and 'that'. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite - there is nothing which it excludes or opposses. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all things.

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.