Vinnie Paz
Rapper
"I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums"
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Void
206 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"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."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him."
Glenn Gould
Pianist
"The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it."
Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."
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"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"
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"How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void."
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"When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships."
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"As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing."
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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."
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"The eternal void is filled with infinite possibilities"
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"At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void."
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"Nothing exists but atoms and the void."
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"It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode."
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"It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void."
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"Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose."
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"Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
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"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
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"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void."
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"Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind."
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"He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone."
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"When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form."
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"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."
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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."
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"Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you."
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