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Quotes About Void

W]hen a man hath . . . granted away his Right; then is he said to be Obliged or Bound, not to hinder those, to whom such Right is granted, or abandoned, from the benefit of it: and that he Ought and it is his Duty, not to make voyd that voluntary act of his own.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, I feel: therefore I exist. I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them matter. I feel them changing place. This gives me motion. Where there is an absence of matter, I call it void, or nothing, or immaterial space. On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need.
~ Thomas Jefferson
O great God, Father of all things, Whose infinite light is darkness to me Whose immensity is to me as the void, You have called me forth out of yourself because You love me in yourself, and I am a transient expression of Your inexhaustible and eternal reality. I could not know You, I would be lost in this darkness, I would fall away from You into this void, if You did not hold me to Yourself in the Heart of Your only begotten Son.
~ Thomas Merton
That night she sat for hours, too numb to even drink, teaching herself to breathe in a vaccum. For this, oh God, was the void.
~ Thomas Pynchon
It's hard to miss something that you have never had.
~ Kathleen Olmstead
I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
~ Kathy Acker
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 despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
A life had somehow escaped through a rip in the universe.
~ Kenn Amdahl
looks t o t a l l y s p a c e
~ Kenn Nesbitt
Does absence have a weight?
~ C.A. Fletcher
Existe sempre uma coisa Ausente.
~ Caio Fernando Abreu
For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasantly stale.
~ Cal newport
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
~ Gayle Forman
The music is the void. And you're the reason why.
~ Gayle Forman
I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness.
~ Gayle Forman
A veces, sólo se puede sentir algo por su ausencia. Por el espacio vacío que deja atrás.
~ Gayle Forman
I'm a planet without it's sun
~ Gayle Forman
I'm a planet without a sun, I'm already cold and dead - Cody
~ Gayle Forman
A restaurant on the moon could not have had less atmosphere.
~ Geoff Dyer
A black cavern is our silence.
~ Georg Trakl
The world of sense, if it is limited, lies necessarily within the infinite void. If we ignore this, and with it, space in general, as an a priori condition of the possibility of phenomena, the whole world of sense vanishes, which alone forms the object of our enquiry.
~ Immanuel Kant
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.
~ Iris Murdoch
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.
~ Iris Murdoch