Quotes About Vastness

Love is bigger than us. So we confuse ourselves over it.And of course, its vastness overwhelms. But then that is the only lesson in life.How to love. How to love well, with a detached eye but a concerned hand.How to understand and surrender to its countless contradictions. Most importantly, though, how to never stop loving.

Love is bigger than us. So we confuse over it. And of course its vastness overwhelms. But then that is the only lesson in life. How to love. how to love well, with detached eye but a concerned hand. How to understand and surrender to its countless contradictions. Most importantly though, how to never stop loving.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.

The black well of sky and stars went out and out and out forever; her body and her complexity seemed to disappear.

Siberia is a state of mind.

What is it about featureless wastes that appeals so powerfully to the Anglo-Saxon soul?

Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders.

But we all have some largeness in us, don't we, Ana?

Just think. We're whizzing through the universe.

He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Dacher Keltner and Jonathain Haidt wrote: 'Two appraisals are central and are present in all clear cases of awe: perceived vastness, and a need for accommodation, defined as an inability to assimilate an experience into current mental structures.

I should love to see a ground-glass blue ocean

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant?

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

There's this sky I like.

Mosca had been so busy working the oars of her little plan that she had failed to see the iceberg upon which it was doomed to founder. And now here it was in front of her, a towering glacial mountain of selfishness, and she could not understand how she could have missed it. How vast was it? How far beneath the surface did it go?

I cannot avoid seeing the so-called dreamworld of life with all its challenge, suffering, joy, and possibility. I feel we know and live in two worlds: infinite consciousness and ordinary expressions of material life. To me, we are the wondrous expressions of form within a timeless, unlimited vastness.

Space is like one's mind.... infinite