Quotes About Vastness

and the dark blue over everything

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

Oceans of clouds in my chest.

There was so much more going on than any one person could know, reality was so much bigger than the self, that it was alarming to contemplate. This explained the error: one felt the vastness and shrunk in on oneself like a snail's horns, instinctively trying to protect one's mind. And yet there was no real harm in it, this contact with the larger reality.

Solen er forlængst dukket under synsranden, fjældene er blit hvitlig grønne, de ser ut i sin fjærnhet og i sin vælde som en verden for sig selv.

Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash? saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe in my head.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

In our daily meditations, we pray to the Divine who fills the world, and fills our hearts, and moves us from rung-to-rung, until we arrive at where we have always been. And then we take another step so that the soul can come to encompass the vastness of the knowable as well as the unknowable.

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.

Kitty stared at the sky smashing against the mountains.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

They lifted up and drifted beyond the ledge, the world opening up beneath them.

At night, far from shore, stars pulse with a strength inconceivable in the proximity of light.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

th blu nyt th stRs u can't c th hum tht nevr gOs awy

He watched the eternity of the sky. The dark was restful, but the vastness was cold and made you draw something close to you.

To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region; Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

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 Ocean's Heart too Smooth - too Blue - To break for you.

The night was wide, and furnished scant With but a single star, That often as a cloud it met Blew out itself for fear. The wind pursued the little bush