Careful Words

void (n.)

void (v.)

void (adj.)

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd!

How sweet their memory still!

But they have left an aching void

The world can never fill.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Walking with God.

The keenest pangs the wretched find

Are rapture to the dreary void,

The leafless desert of the mind,

The waste of feelings unemployed.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Giaour. Line 957.

  Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. iv. 50.