“ Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
“ Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
“ I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. ”
- Elizabeth Blackwell- Copy
“ If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation, none. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
“ The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. ”
- Sam Shepard- Copy
“ He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living. ”
- Max Frisch- Copy
“ Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
“ Too often, governments have operated in a vacuum, believing they could come up with some magic formula to which they have an exclusive patent. ”
- Kim Campbell- Copy
“ Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
“ Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real "horror vacuum… ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
“ A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing… ”
- John Keats- Copy
“ It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life. It is true. That moment when you walk into the Olympic Stadium as part of the Australian Olympic Team, is a moment that I will never forget. ”
- Jeff Fenech- Copy
“ We see the universe as it is... and these naked truths are cruel ones. We who believe in life, and treasure it, will die. Afterward there will be nothing, eternal emptiness, blackness, nonexistence. In our living there has been no purpose, no poetry, no meaning… ”
- George R. R. Martin- Copy
“ Not chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams — can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our minds, into the mind of man. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
“ Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
“ An educated, well-trained workforce is the key to our state's economic prosperity. We need to take down the no vacancy sign and ensure we are focusing on the needs of both today and tomorrow's employers. ”
- Christine Gregoire- Copy
“ Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone; but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument. ”
- Ethan Allen- Copy
“ Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
“ In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. ”
- Sir Philip Sidney- Copy
“ Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
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