{"quotes":[{"text":"Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.","author":"Barnett Newman","tags":["aesthetic","communication","existentialism","expression","origins","the-void","void"],"id":207873,"author_id":"Barnett+Newman"},{"text":"I shall never forget the peace of his hermitage amidst the eternal snows and the lesson he taught me: that we cannot face the Great Void before we have the strength and greatness to fill it with our entire being. Then the Void is not the negation merely of our limited personality, but the Plenum-Void which includes, embraces and nourishes it, like the womb of space in which the light moves eternally without ever being lost.","author":"Anagarika Govinda","tags":["buddhism","the-void"],"id":249536,"author_id":"Anagarika+Govinda"},{"text":"Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void.","author":"Dean Cavanagh","tags":["absurdity","existence","the-void"],"id":315169,"author_id":"Dean+Cavanagh"},{"text":"The void can only be filled with love.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["alienation","emptiness","loneliness","love","the-void"],"id":328684,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"When you fill a void, isn't the void still there?","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["emptiness","loneliness","the-void"],"id":396271,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"There are 200,000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["attitude","emptiness","nature","nihilism","the-void","the-world"],"id":409263,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"...Your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["spirituality","the-void","timelessness","transformation"],"id":437943,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}