Void Quotes

Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is ‘evil,’ which it undoubtedly is, and that ‘evildoers’ are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.

With ‘Enter the Void,’ I didn’t know you could go to this place of surrealism in a movie. I felt sick when I watched it. It really stuck with me.

We’re trying to plug a void and bring what’s been missing back to hip-hop.

Even though I felt, at times, ‘My goodness, you’re among the upper echelon,’ there is still a huge void there. A huge void. It is about self-esteem. That’s a thing that has always been a real complex part of my life.

80-percent of ‘Enter the Void’ is a traditional narrative movie. I suppose it’s more similar to ‘Jacob‘s Ladder’ or ‘Videodrome’ than it is to ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome‘ by Kenneth Anger, which is very experimental. It’s the other 10% of 20% that reminds you of the language and glamour of dreams.

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it’s attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

The movie industry has collapsed into two types of film – the $100 million blockbuster or the small independent film of $1 million or less – and the huge middle ground has been lost. Cable is filling that void.

There is no answer. That’s what Buddhism says. The Void, oblivion, no answer. To be in that state is an enlightened state.

I think there’s a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there’s some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn’t be a void for those people, as well.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

Many of the writers I admire – Melville, Dickinson, Kafka – were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

There’s an age group that’s just not being entertained – the boomers. There’s a void out there. It’s nice to be one of those who can fill that void.

When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.

I am sure that everyone will immediately discover how much ‘The Brightest Void’ and ‘The Shadow Self’ are entwined with each other but, at the same time, are two independent records which stand on their own.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

There’s been a big void out there, in terms of where I’ve been and what I am currently working on, I’d like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future.

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy… I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don’t have another way to be.

It’s not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn’t evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.

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.

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

Soccer is my first love. I’ve been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

I guess when there’s a real void in your life and your marriage has become rotten, you fantasize a lot of things.

TheIinternet is a timeless void – you put something in there, and it’s there forever and loses a lot of context.

I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

Keira was in America when we were having our moment in the sun in the U.K., so she was oblivious. But over the years, she came to loads of gigs and loved ‘Surfing the Void.’

Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.

There were many times during the filming of ‘Touching the Void’ when I wondered why I had ever thought I wanted to make this film.

After touring an album, you have this strange void that follows it, where you feel slightly displaced, like you’ve just finished with the circus and you’ve got to find a new job. You think, OK, what shall we do next.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like an abyss, void of real people.

If the U.S. fails to set the rules for global trade, then other countries with records of environmental and labor abuses, like China, will step in to fill the void.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids… I didn’t have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that’s what I gravitated to.

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?