Void Quotes - Page 19

• The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Joy, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.30

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• Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

  William Shenstone

  Good Man, Purpose, Use

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.137

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• We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, Fate, Air

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.26

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• A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Taken, Reflection

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

  Horace Walpole

  Scotch, Humour, Wit

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.67

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• [An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, United States, Constitution

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.466, Cambridge University Press

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• In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Self, Views

  "Marriage interruptus: Giving up too early". amydickinson.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Inspirational, Men, Ought

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• Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Freedom, Virtue

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.111

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• Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Drama, Adventure, Journey

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.

  Jonathan Hale

  Attitude, House, Effort

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

  William Hazlitt

  Landscape, Form, Said

  Of Turner's painting, quoted in J Lindsay Turner: The Man and his Art (1985).

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• One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.

  Ajahn Chah

  Pain, Men, Self

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• Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Law, Null, Today

  Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech, 1873.

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• 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

  Beloved, Pleasure, Strife

  Izaak Walton (1878). “The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. New illustr. ed., with notes by G.C. Davies”

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• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.

  Meister Eckhart

  Soul, May, Praise

  Meister Eckhart (2007). “Meister Eckhart's Sermons”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Gone, World

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

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• 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.

  Lucretius

  Doubt, Wander, Knows

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.17

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• Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Sick, Honor

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.361

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• Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Giving, Christ

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

  Aleatha Romig

  Desire, Stories, Pages

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• Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
  That lights the pathway but one step ahead
  Across a void of mystery and dread.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Knowledge, Light

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Gratitude, Fantastic Life, Wanting Someone

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• No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dream, Children, War

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.110, Orb Books

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

  Oswald Mosley

  Ideas, Political, Action

  Sir Oswald Mosley (1968). “My Life”

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