Void Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Memories, Past, Might

  11 Copy quote

• Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mean, Sacrifice, Decision

  9 Copy quote

• C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

  Alan Perlis

  Casts, Programmers, Dies

  9 Copy quote

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

  James Otis

  Constitution, Natural, Equity

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Roger Scruton

  Space, Building, Dialogue

  12 Copy quote

• All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Color, Profound, Masters

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.92, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

  7 Copy quote

• But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.

  Lauren Oliver

  Life, Winning, Track

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Rooms”, p.74, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, People, Acting

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Zhuangzi

  Giving, Mind, Limits

  30 Copy quote

• Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

  George Kubler

  Real, Dark, Past

  Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Dimensions, Obligation

  10 Copy quote

• Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

  Sengcan

  Oneness, Entanglement, Serene

  20 Copy quote

• The last kiss is given to the void.

  Aidan Higgins

  Kissing, Lasts, Given

  Aidan Higgins (1997). “Flotsam and jetsam”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Space, Headstone, Smallest

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Life, by J. Forster”, p.91

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Wilkie Collins

  Spiritual, Lying, Light

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1463, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

  Hervey Allen

  Color, Borders, Tendencies

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Robbins

  Fashion, Believe, Men

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Terry Goodkind

  Crush, Commitment, Fighting

  5 Copy quote

• Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience helps us develop the full potential Heavenly Father desires for us in becoming celestial beings worthy some day to live in His presence.

  James E. Faust

  Life, Father, Dark

  12 Copy quote

• How blessed is he, who leads a country life, Unvex'd with anxious cares, and void of strife! Who studying peace, and shunning civil rage, Enjoy'd his youth, and now enjoys his age: All who deserve his love, he makes his own; And, to be lov'd himself, needs only to be known.

  John Dryden

  Life, Country, Peace

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Future, Past

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 50,

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it?
  Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people.
  This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Truth, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Filling Up, Law, Space

  5 Copy quote

• I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.

  Michael Novak

  Lying, Acceptance, Despair

  Michael Novak (1970). “The Experience of Nothingness”, p.67, Transaction Publishers

  7 Copy quote

  Show source