Void Quotes

• If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Positive, Long, Looks

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• Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Space, Silence

  C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

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• The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities

  Laozi

  Infinite, Possibility, Filled

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• 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

  World, Limitless, Disappear

  Chuck Hillig (2007). “Looking for God: Seeing the Whole in One”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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• And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Moving, Stills, Moved

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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• As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Fall, Dark

  Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

  Paulo Coelho

  Know Yourself, Knows, Ifs

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• 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

  Opposites, Realizing, Form

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Sebastian Faulks

  Reflection, Soul, Saws

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Jan 20, 2015

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Watches, Explanation

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• Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

  Rumi

  Voice, Roots, Long

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• No craving void left aching in the soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Craving, Left

  'Eloisa to Abelard' (1717) l. 91

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• Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Spiritual, Joy, Peaceful

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• To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

  Alan Watts

  Death, Space, Secret

  Alan Watts (2000). “What is Zen?”, p.81, New World Library

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• Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Two, Darkness, Sparks

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• All sins are attempts to fill voids.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Memorable, Sin

  La Pesanteur et la Grace "Desirer sans Objet" (1948)

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• Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

  Democritus

  Atoms

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• People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.

  Emmett Shear

  Talking, People, Silence

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• My soul is all an aching void.

  Charles Wesley

  Soul, My Soul

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.138, Ravenio Books

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Purpose

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• 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

  Rejection, Fantasy, Deny

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1973). “The lathe of heaven”

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• 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

  Reality, Space, Adrift

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 15, 2014

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• 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

  Dad, Father, Men

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• And I, infinitesima­l being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Heart, Wind

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.459, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.

  Rumi

  Love, Fire, Soul

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