Quotes About Vastness

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

When you see the ocean and the infinite, it empties your mind.

Cuando estuve por primera vez frente al océano quedé sobrecogido. Allí entre dos grandes cerros (el Huilque y el Maule) se desarrollaba la furia del gran mar. No sólo eran las inmensas olas nevadas que se levantaban a muchos metros sobre nuestras cabezas, sino un estruendo de corazón colosal, la palpitación del universo.

Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

When he held a candle across the threshold, the black swallowed the fire completely. When he tried to step across it, he felt nothing beneath his foot. Sometimes he heard rain, a bird-cry, wind soughing through tall trees; mostly he was aware only of an intimation of vastness, silence, as though he stood at the edge of a world. He saw nothing. So he let the charcoal imagine what might lie on the other side of the door.

Sou um universo em expansão, nadando para cima em um oceano silencioso.

The current of my mind carried me swiftly into the open sea.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough

One thought fills immensity.

There was the ocean, effectively infinite, falling away forever to the horizon.

Her fingers found a random second stud and she was catapulted through the static wall, into cluttered vastness, the notional void of cyberspace, the bright grid of the matrix ranged around her like an infinite cage.

And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.

The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth

trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Walter was all alone in a huge, empty room with no windows.

But this vast empty room was the loneliest, most awful place he had ever been. Its

Marvin, her ?ey yolunda m??" Hay?r, hiçbir ?ey yolunda de?il. Bir sonraki güne? sistemine yakla??k 40.850.000.000.000 kilometre uzaktay?z. Samanyolu'nun çap? 100.000 ???k y?l?. Bir ???k yolu 9,46 milyar kilometre. Bu kavranamaz uzakl?klar?n yan?nda, ya?ad???m gezegen tamam?yla bir hiç. Bu durumda nas?l olmal?y?m? Hiçbir ?ekilde iyi olamayaca??m kesin.

The see lifts me again, and carries me away with it.

Science encourages us to reflect upon the size of our lives in relation to the vastness of the universe or the bewildering multitudes of microbes that exist inside our bodies. And it reveals to us a planet that is beautifully and insistently not human.

In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, "This is land," and point, and "This is sky," and point, but the eyes can't discover the dividing line.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.