Quotes / Beautiful Void

The streets are empty. Wind skims the voids keeping neighbors apart, as if grazing the hollow of a cut reed, or say, a plundered mailbox. A familiar note is produced. It's the one Desolation plays to keep its instrument in tune.
It is your thirteenth birthday, and as with all twelve preceding it, something feels missing from your life. The game presently eluding you is only the latest sleight of hand in the repertoire of an unseen riddler, one to engender a sense not of mirth, but of lack. His coarse schemes are those less of a prankster than a common pickpocket. His riddle is Absence itself. It is a mystery dispersing altogether, like the moon's faint reflection, with even one pebble of inquiry dropped in its black well. It is the most diabolical riddle of all.
"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire." -Walt Whitman
Yes, you are certain Walt Whitman said that. One hundred percent positive.
You have a feeling it's going to be a long day.

— Homestuck, Strip 82

"And so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void exists, just as surely as you or I. Is nothingness any less a miracle than substance?"

— Sister Miriam Godwinson, "We Must Dissent", Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

"Beautiful view. Magnificent desolation."

— Buzz Aldrin's first words upon stepping on The Moon during Apollo 11

An icy winter paints the mountains
Like a white, magic landscape
It seems forsaken, but inviting
All untouched, undiscovered

— Dream Map, "Wanderer"

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