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Void Quotes - Page 8

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.213

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

"Michael Douglas: 'I am consumed with being a father'" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.449, Scholastic Inc.

To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.

John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.313

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.241

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

My soul is all an aching void.

Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.138, Ravenio Books

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

Tony Dungy (2011). “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance”, p.160, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.90, Ignatius Press