Quotes About Immensity

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

who can carry The incineration of a Universe?

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

The first lesson that the sages of the Upanishads teach their selected pupils is the inadequacy of the intellect. How can this feeble brain, that aches at a little calculus, ever hope to understand the complex immensity of which it is so transitory a fragment?

Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

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

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.

I'm telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I am telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

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

We are tied to the sea, and its dark abyss, by blood.

What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

This immensity, dappled with cloud shadows and punctuated with assorted mountain peaks, was enough to lift the human spirit.

To live on the prairie is to daydream. It is the only conceivable response to such immensity. It is when we are smallest that our daydreams come quickest.

I had reached the age of six hundred and fifty miles.

Try to work on the scale of eternity. Do you see? Otherwise you will be fettered by trivia. The daily frustrations will cripple you.

Jamás, al igual que para siempre, es un término tan grande que escapa a la comprensión de los mortales.

I mean, if you have any idea of any kind of complexity or immensity or destiny, of general order, you're put in a position of nothingness. And I think this is true. I don't think I'm anything; I never have thought that. Whatever it is that activates it is a certain kind of energy that goes on. But the effect is ridiculous; it's absurd." --Lincoln Kirstein in "The New Yorker

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

there is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound and fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.