Quotes About Vastness

He didn't know why, but the sight of the water stretching out as far as the eye could see, until it met the sky way in the distance, evoked a feeling of awe in him: the way it was always changing, the surface swelling and dipping, the scudding whitecaps and huge breakers. It put you in your place, put things in perspective. He could watch it forever.

On a great plain where no light shone from the iron-dark sky, and where a mist obscured the horizon on every side. The ground was bare earth, beaten flat by the pressure of millions of feet, even though those feet had less weight than feathers; so it must have been time that pressed it flat, even though time had been stilled in this place; so it must have been the way things were. This was the end of all places and the last of all worlds.

Sono le onde a far sì che il mare non sia solo un enorme pozzanghera.

When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.

It hardly seems fair we'd get the universe all to ourselves...

No matter how fast our ships can go, space is still very big.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness.

No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got!

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether.

Mais Paris est un véritable océan. Jetez-y la sonde, vous n'en connaîtrez jamais la profondeur.

There's a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.

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Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

Siberia is so big, it's almost more an idea than a place

The larger the universe gets, it seems, the smaller and less important we humans appear. As one novelist put it, the history of astronomy is the history of increasing humiliation.

Astronism is not to be explained so easily as others for its vastness and complexity is a topic of study, not skimming.

From an atom to The Milky Way to The Cosmos itself, the perspectives of size is the greatest thought of immense confounding complexity.

There's a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.

As far as the eye could reach, this lonely forest sea rolled on and on till its faint blue billows broke against an incredibly distant horizon.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. The brain is deeper than the sea, For, hold them, blue to blue, The one the other will absorb, As sponges, buckets do. The brain is just the weight of God, For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do, As syllable from sound. —Emily Dickinson

A pebble thrown in a pool may ripple from end to end, but tossed into the sea, it is swallowed by enormity.

And the sea has boundless patience.

My inner world was as vast, unlimited, and enchanted as any fairy tale.