Quotes About Vastness

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm.

We must be equal to the largeness of things.

Her eyes had to adjust to the night sky. She walked away from the house, out of the spill of electric light, and the sky grew deeper. She watched for a long time and it began to spread and melt and go deeper still, developing strata and magnitudes and light-years in numbers so unapproachable that someone had to invent idiot names to represent the arrays of ones and zeros and powers and dominations because only the bedtime language of childhood can save us from awe and shame.

Behind me, his bedroom light went out, brightening the sky, and how queer it seemed, half the heavens coming nearer, all those incandescent masses increasing in number, the stars and constellations, because somebody turns off a light in a house in the desert...

The desert was outside my range, it was an alien being, it was science fiction, both saturating and remote, and I had to force myself to believe I was here.

Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.

I'd felt drowned and extinguished by vastness—not just the predictable vastness of time, and space, but the impassable distances between people even when they were within arm's reach of each other, and with a swell of vertigo I thought of all the places I'd been and all the places I hadn't, a world lost and vast and unknowable, dingy maze of cities and alleyways, far-drifting ash and hostile immensities, connections missed, things lost and never found…

Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale

Il n'y a pas de plus grande émotion que d'entrer dans le désert.

Solo en las vastas extensiones del espacio la luz parece lenta

My witness is the empty sky.

An ocean with a single shore gets little traffic.

This earth is seventy percent water. Hard not to walk into it.

In the spiritual lore, the human body is considered supremely sacred, as this is the only mechanism that can take a being from the limited identification of the self to the unlimited, from a bounded existence to the realm of the unbounded, to the final plunge into the vastness of the Infinite.

When I looked at them, they made up a sea.

Contempla la bellezza nelle cose semplici: il sole che sorge da quell'immensa, scintillante distesa d'acqua che è il mare; sorge ogni giorno in modo nuovo, come fosse la prima volta. <> dice nel suo cuore, perchè sente la fresca brezza sulla nuca. Ma più volte sente l'inutilità di tutto ciò, perchè davanti a lui si stende un silenzio spaventoso, una vastità, dalla lunghezza e larghezza e profondità incommensurabili. Il nulla

The earth seemed to echo where I walked. Above me the sky stretched out its empty hands.

Living with him was like standing beside the sea. Each day a different color, a different foam-capped height, but always the same restless intensity pulling towards the horizon.

O God, Thy Sea Is So Great And My Boat Is So Small

And the sky all wild, all free, all wind and air and space and stars.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

Every time you look at the sky just remember that that thats how big my love for you is.

a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost;