Quotes About Vastness

Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The

Ah, the ocean. The movement of eternity right in front of us." (61)

The deep doesn't bother swallowing just anybody. The sea takes the extraordinary and leaves the rest be

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

A great ship asks deep water.

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. Alfred Lord Tennyson

She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.

The Wall was like that. Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forgot about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

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

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

There's never an end for the sea.

One thought fills immensity.

The nations are as a drop of a bucket.

Most je izgledao beskrajan i nestvaran, jer mu se krajevi gube u mlecnoj magli a stubovi pri dnu tonu u tami.

Why do people live in places like this? There's nothing here. You see all that sky?" she asked Roarke. "You shouldn't be able to see that much sky from down here. It can't be good for you.

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell

The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.

Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow night.

There are immeasurable star misty aeons of universes more numerous than the sands in all the galaxies, multiplied by a billion lightyears of multiplication, in fact if I were to go on you'd be scared and couldn't comprehend and you'd despair so much you'd drop dead,' that's what he just about said in one of those sutras----

Great beautiful clouds floated overhead, valley clouds that made you feel the vastness of old tumbledown holy America from mouth to mouth and tip to tip.

Qué se siente cuando uno se aleja de la gente y ésta retrocede en el llano hasta que se convierte en motitas que se desvanecen? Es que el mundo que nos rodea es demasiado grande, y es el adiós.

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.