Quotes About Vastness

Some infinites are bigger than other infinites.

The universe was very beautiful. I looked out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.

Space is big, and even at ludicrous rates of speed, crossing chunks of it takes a long time.

From here, she could observe the structure of the Jacob's Ladder. She had a confused idea of lattices and bulbous habitats, of corridors, threading asymmetrically over the surfaces of anchores and domaines. Of gray metal and patchy paint. Now she saw the world in all its incomprehensible vastness, like a grandly rotating three-dimensional spiderweb, and the complexity bewildered her.

Space: still ridiculously big.

In reality, there's nothing quite like staring into the most enormous black hole in the galaxy, then flying down its gullet like a gnat with attitude.

I look out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.

Sull'aeroplano ci sentiamo membri di un organismo gigantesco: tutto sotto di noi si fa piccolo, maneggevole e lezioso come un giocattolo, finché ogni cosa si scioglie in una distanza indistinta sotto di noi e la nostra casa diventa il cielo, che ci appare pieno di dettagli e di cose da osservare.

Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

The Universe is wild

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

The Trans-Siberian Express is like a cruise across an oceanic landscape. I've done it three times.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

God is active and present in every moment of our lives, but too often we are so caught up in how we ought to be rather than allowing ourselves to be swept up into the whirlwind of the Spirit. God desires that we learn to play again, to experience Him like little children do, open in wonder to the vastness and endless wonder of Him.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

Then there is the ocean, mean and beautiful.

Don't forget that the ocean is full of everything except mercy.

My eyes remember oceans.

Alone, alone, all, all alone;Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows,Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.

You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.