Quotes About Vastness

I gazed up at the sky. I was in a tiny boat, on a vast ocean. No wind, no waves, just me floating there. Adrift on the open sea.. ..A tiny boat cut loose from the fiction of the ship.

Bringing my face close to the glass, I looked out at the wide expanse of ocean. The horizon seemed to be pushing up against the sky. I followed the line where the sky met the water from end to end. No human being could draw a line so beautiful, whatever ruler they might use.

The clouds looked like silent travelers headed for the edge of the earth.

How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.

Plus un esprit se limite, plus il touche par ailleurs à l'infini.

For the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.

For the more a man limits himself, the more he is close to the infinite.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

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.

Whoever you are, some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one... And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

It's not even possible to say quite where the outback is. To Australians anything vaguely rural is "the bush." At some indeterminate point "the bush" becomes "the outback." Push on for another two thousand miles or so and eventually you come to bush again, and then a city, and then the sea. And that's Australia.

The universe was vaster—vastly vaster—than anyone had ever supposed.

the average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour.

Think of it: there is enough of you to leave the solar system. You are in the most literal sense cosmic.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me

The eternal silence of these infinite places fills me with dread.

I see the terrifying spaces of the universe that enclose me, and I find myself attached to a corner of this vast expanse, without knowing why I am more in this place than in another, nor why this little time that is given me to live is assigned me at this point more than another out of all the eternity that has preceded me and out of all that will follow me.

l'silence eternal de ces espaces infinis m'effraie

Bu sonsuz mekânlar?n ebedi suskunluÄŸu beni ürkütüyor.

De eeuwige stilte van deze eindeloze ruimte vervult me met angst.

we went outside and the night was really still and the stars were like an explosion across the sky.