Quotes About Vastness

Non sarebbe poi niente se solo non si avesse di fonte l'infinito.

Viskas b?t? nesvarbu, jei tik prieš mus nusidriekt? begalyb?.

No sailor could be lonelier than a man standing in the middle of our land, with the miles and miles of blue about him.

This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?

You are this vastness. This vista you see, this grandeur, this enduring strength—if you go deeply enough inside yourself, you will find not something small but something immensely spacious. This is the essence of the human spirit.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is…

knowledge right now, there are two trillion galaxies in the known Universe, each with an average of a hundred billion stars. Which comes to two hundred billion trillion stars in total. And

there are two trillion galaxies in the known Universe, each with an average of a hundred billion stars. Which comes to two hundred billion trillion stars in total.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

So many lights you'd think we were living in a constellation

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her

There is a loneliness that fills the plain. Total. Lunar.

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on.

Quando di notte alzavamo la testa verso la luna, percepivamo in noi la vastità del mondo, la sentivamo brillare immobile sopra il brulichio ininterrotto di miliardi di individui. La coscienza si dilatava nello spazio totale del pianeta, verso altre galassie. L'infinito smetteva di essere immaginario. Ecco perché era inconcepibile dirsi che un giorno saremmo morti.

La inmensidad vacía de las cosas, el gran olvido que hay en el cielo y la tierra.

Porque soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi altura. Frases como estas, que parecen crecer sin voluntad que las hubiera dicho, me limpian de toda la metafísica que añado a mi vida. Después de leerlas, me acerco a mi ventana sobre la calle estrecha, observo el vasto cielo y los muchos astros y soy libre con un esplendor alado cuya vibración me estremece el cuerpo entero.

And my heart is a little larger than the entire universe. — Álvaro de Campos, from "[I got off the train]," 4 July 1934, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa , ed. & trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics, 2006)

La artificialidad es la manera de disfrutar la naturalidad. Lo que he disfrutado de estos campos vastos, lo he disfrutado porque no vivo aquí. No siente la libertad quien nunca se ha visto oprimido.

Eastrod filled his head and then went out beyond and filled the space that stretched from the train across the empty darkening fields.

I've always been fascinated by the desert.

In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.

The ocean, to me, is one of the most terrifying things on the planet.

If you ever find yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you look around in every direction and don't see anything. That's a terrifying experience.