Quotes About Vastness

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

Who can count the sand by the sea?

We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love.

Why does everyone see me as a sink when I am an ocean?

See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.

The mind is deeper than the horizon, bigger than the universe, and more mysterious than space.

The vastness of your imagination depends on the level of your consciousness, the power of your awareness, and the deepness of your perception.

I love the vastness of the ocean. I love its serenity, tranquility, humility, and purifying power.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

The stars in the sky are immeasurable.

seen as soon as the reefs, from a ship's mast

Why does the sea induce these feelings of transcendence in us? Is it because an unobstructed view of overarching sky meeting endlessly stirring water is as close as we can come on this earth to a visual symbol of the infinite?

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

From the petal's edge a line startsthat being of steelinfinitely fine, infinitelyrigid penetratesthe Milky Waywithout contact—

One thing—one thing exceeds the eternity of the star, he cries, and that is the dark which surrounds it.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich (2006) reported that there are more than 100 billion galaxies. One of these, our own relative speck of a galaxy, has a few hundred billion stars, many of which, like our Sun-star, are circled by planets. On the scale of outer space, we are less than a single grain of sand on all the oceans' beaches, and our lifetime but a relative nanosecond.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...

There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.