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Quotes About Void

The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that would answer to the name 'nowhere'.
~ Pierre Péju
Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.
~ Pitigrilli
The place where no harm can come is the place where nothing at all can come.
~ Quentin Crisp
Light, oh where is the light! Kindle it with the burning fire of desire! It thunders and the wind rushes screaming through the void. The night is black as a black stone. Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
It is nothing but a breath, the void.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Ya no existe el cohete. Nunca existió. Ni la gente. No hay nadie en todo el universo. Nunca hubo nadie. Ni planetas. Ni estrellas. Eso decía. Y luego algo acerca de sus pies y sus piernas y sus manos: No mas manos, decía. Ya no tengo manos. Nunca las tuve. Ni cuerpo. Nunca lo tuve. Ni boca. Ni cara. Ni cabeza. Nada. Solamente espacio. Solamente el abismo.
~ Ray Bradbury
Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself...
~ Ray Bradbury
And to a place I come where nothing shines.
~ Joseph Conrad
Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The challenge is, to live in a house from which meaning has departed, like air leaking from a balloon. A slow leak, yet lethal. And one day, the balloon is flat: it is not a balloon any longer. By
~ Joyce Carol Oates
inside me like a hole that can never be filled and there was Mira Roche
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Without you, I am an empty place where spiders crawl and nothing takes root.
~ Judith Ortiz Cofer
brief, I saw how "dad deprivation" and the purpose void had a compounding effect.
~ Warren Farrell
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.
~ Wayne Muller
even a force field cannot hold back the void only a human embrace
~ Wendy Rathbone
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
~ Werner Herzog
I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.
~ Will Christopher Baer
Du kannst was man können muss, aber du bist leer.
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
~ Daniel Libeskind
Opasno je naginjati se nad tu?om prazninom, a u pustoj želji da se u njoj, kao na dnu bunara, ogleda svoje sopstveno lice; jer i to je taština. Taština nad taštinama.
~ Danilo Kiš
Witnessing the blind fury of this mob and seeing them kill before my eyes the Jews who refused to be converted (some out of faith, and others from that pride which can sometimes be perilous), I answered that I would rather be converted than killed, since, in spite of everything, the temporary agony of being is more valuable than the ultimate void of nothingness.
~ Danilo Kiš
Places that are empty of you are empty of life.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Niente, siamo un nulla riempito di niente, amor mio.
~ Dario Bellezza
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.
~ Dave Eggers