Void Quotes
540 quotes by 457 authors
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Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Everyone knew what he was thinking. Certainly there were demons in the world. But they were like Tehlu’s angels. They were like heroes and kings.…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because…
— Jean Cocteau
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Soundlessly whispering into the void, my lips moving quickly, silently, without ceasing. Calling his name, calling him to me. Even though there's no use. Even…
— Alyson Noel
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
— Irvin D. Yalom
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Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where…
— Franz Kafka
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with…
— Ann Voskamp
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So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one…
— Marc Acito
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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…
— Piers Anthony
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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…
— Jose Saramago
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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I…
— Gayle Forman
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Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of…
— David Levithan
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There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something…
— Erin Morgenstern
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I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside…
— Haruki Murakami
Who Wrote These Void Quotes
457 authors contributed a total of 540 Void Quotes, led by these top contributors: