Quotes About Vastness

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

The Universe is very, very big.

So much universe, and so little time.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

All around her are wildernesses, wastes.

I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave we are, we the human race.

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it's full of stars!

Jupiter now filled the entire sky; it was so huge that neither mind nor eye could grasp it any longer, and both had abandoned the attempt. If it had not been for the extraordinary variety of color—the reds and pinks and yellows and salmons and even scarlets—of the atmosphere beneath them, Bowman could have believed that he was flying low over a cloudscape on Earth.

The stars are not for Man.

Nada es pequeño para una inteligencia grande.

Sam came to take its somber vastness as natural; felt the million histories being enacted behind the curtained windows of the million houses. On clear days, when rare thin sunshine caressed the gray-green bricks which composed the backs of London houses, even these ugly walls had for him, in relief at the passing of the mist-pall, a charm he had never found in the hoydenish glare of sunshine on bright winter days in Zenith.

Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

Life appear's across the limits.

At whose sight all the starsHide their diminish'd heads.

The minuteness of the human race within the vastness of the universe is not an incongruity because the vastness of the universe is not about the greatness of man but about the greatness of God. Man has his greatness, but it lies in his capacity to know and worship the God who calls the universe "the work of [his] fingers" (Ps. 8:3).

It was the force of a public tragedy he felt, a horror and a woe so all-pervasive that private tragedies and personal misfortunes were removed to another state of being, yet were intensified by the very vastness in which they took place, as the poignancy of a lone grave might be intensified by a great desert surrounding it.

The Heart of the Plains is always beating.

Il mare è uno splendore indifferente.

Here lay the West, barbaric, abounding, beautiful.

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