Devoid
To empty out; to remove.
Void; empty; vacant.
Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride.
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Devoid Quotations
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Marcel Proust
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
Helen Hayes
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
Bodhidharma
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
Joan Didion
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
Devoid Translations
devoid in German is ohne, leer
devoid in Hungarian is mentes
devoid in Italian is vuoto
devoid in Norwegian is fri, blottet for
devoid in Spanish is vacio, desprovisto
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