Quotes About Vastness

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

God, an enormous darkness, hung looped over half her sky, an ever-present menace, a cloud waiting to break.

Ce lui qui nage au milieu des flots ne se rend pas compte de l'immensité de la mer

When you know you're the ocean, you're not afraid of the waves.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Time to get cosmic. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on any beach, more stars than seconds have passed since Earth formed, more stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all the humans who ever lived.

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on any beach, more stars than seconds have passed since Earth formed, more stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all the humans who ever lived.

the matter we have come to love in the universe - the stuff of stars, planets and life - is only a light frosting on the cosmic cake, modest buoys afloat in a vast cosmic ocean of something that looks like nothing.

There are people, who walk around every day, asserting that we are alone in this cosmos. They simply have no concept of large numbers, no concept of the size of the cosmos.

The cosmic perspective is humble.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.

Nothing is so logical and nothing appears so absurd as the ocean.

Ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od mora, to je nebo; ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od neba, to je unutrašnjost duše.

This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea...

Sinto-me sepultado ao mesmo tempo por estes dois infinitos: o oceano e o céu.

Recaem sobre ela todas as nuvens pesadas, passa sobre ela o oceano todo.

Há um espetáculo mais grandioso que o mar, é o céu; e há outro mais grandioso que o céu, é o interior da alma.

Nadas que são enormes dentro do vazio.

Will ya look at it?" Dad threw his arms wide, as if he wanted to embrace it all. He seemed to be growing before their eyes, like a tree, spreading branches wide, becoming strong. He liked the nothingness he saw, the vast emptiness. It was what he'd come for.

Up here, in the vastness of Alaska, the words sounded infinitesimal and small. A fist shaken at the gods.