Quotes About Vastness

The desert enforces its own perspective. It shrinks you and puts eternity in the foreground. If you're open to it, and don't mind a diminished role in this drama, it insists, quietly, on the surging beauty of all things and non-things living and dead and not-formally-alive.

Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.

There's a whole world out there. And it's huge.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

Cómo te mantienes a salvo cuando tu día entero es tan inmenso y vacío como el cielo?

it is almost as though someone in those vast spaces is trying to communicate a message of good will, for even the names of the stars are friendly. Venus is any woman we love, the Bears are the bears of childhood

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Fourteen billion years after the Big Bang, the region of space we can directly see is populated by a few hundred billion galaxies, averaging a hundred billion stars each. We

Mitten im Nirgendwo.

The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.

O Signore, la tua notte è così grande e la nostra rete così piccola.

The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and . . ." "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.

The vastness of possibilities in space reminded me that while my life felt important, it was tiny in the scheme of things. Human civilization was only a blink on the radar of time.

That one trip gave me a glimpse of the dizzying freedom of the open road, how vast America was, and how full of wonder.

Storm in a shot glass type of thing. And Angus was the opposite. A whole ocean, dark and chill.

The Pacific is twice the size of the Atlantic, a comparison perhaps too incomprehensible to convey meaning. If in a cartoon, Mount Everest were placed on the floor of the Mariana Trench south of Guam, its peak would fall 6,800 feet short of the surface of the Pacific.

Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

Sobre los campos, a ambos lados de la carretera, se derramaba la niebla como si fuera plomo derretido, simulando el mar y la inmensidad. Por eso, las sombrereras, las personas, las conversaciones y el coche de punto resultaban tan insustanciales y ridículos. Llegué a creer que en verdad a ambos lados se encontraba el mar y me sorprendió su calma.

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.