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Quotes About Immensity

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
~ Charles Dickens
i St ep into the not merely immeasurable into the mightily alive the dear beautiful eternal night
~ E.E. Cummings
El universo es una perversa inmensidad hecha de ausencia. Uno no está casi en ninguna parte.
~ Alejandro Dolina
El universo es una perversa inmensidad hecha de ausencia. Uno no esta casi en ninguna parte. Sin embargo, en medio de las infinitas desolaciones hay una buena noticia: el amor.
~ Alejandro Dolina
It was in their eyes. They seemed like people who had travelled in space and who had looked upon the immensity of the universe; eternity had moved into them, and taken up residence inside.
~ Alex Shearer
And this that we call life, it is no more than the opening and closing of a eye a crevice in the unborn through which there shone a beam of light. Perhaps we are only here to say, live in the mercy of the enkindles immensity.
~ Alexis karpouzos
My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.
~ Trent Reznor
Underground, the eighty-year-old trunks are a hundred thousand, if they're a day. She wouldn't be surprised if this great, joined, single clonal creature that looks like a forest has been around for the better part of a million years. That's why she has stopped: to see one of the oldest, largest living things on earth. All around her spreads one single male whose genetically identical trunks cover more than a hundred acres.
~ Richard Powers
Was the universe eternal?
~ William Peter Blatty
the great is beyond ten feet square, the small enters the tiniest atom.
~ William Scott Wilson
An diesem Abend drehte sich das Gespräch um die unendlichen, glorreichen, immensen Perspektiven der neuen Kommunikationsformen und insbesondere des Internet. Charles war nicht damit einverstanden: Hinter dem technischen Flitterwerk, sagte er, lauere eine neue Art der Entfremdung, die nur zu noch größerem Konsumverhalten und weiterem Verlust an Realitätsbewusstsein und menschlichen Werten beitragen werde.
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
Por la ventana, la interminable Siberia, totalmente blanca de invierno, prisión ideal debido a su inmensidad. Los que huyen mueren perdidos en un exceso de espacio. Es
~ Amelie Nothomb
The meeting introduced me- or, perhaps no introduction was necessary- to the awful collision between the silent, unfeeling dead and immensity of feeling they generate in the living. I left the room with relief, making a mental note to avoid the bereaved at all costs and stick to the safe world inhabited by the dead, with its facts, its measurements, its certainties. In their universe, there was a complete absence of emotion. Not to mention its ugly sister, pain.
~ Richard Shepherd
and the dark blue over everything
~ Richard Siken
The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.
~ Frederick Lenz
I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.
~ Jennifer Egan
The Sierra Madre was like the sea, he thought. Both of them deathless, monotonously eternal, and so indifferent in their magnitude that either could accept the dust of all the world's dead and not have the decency to show it in posture.
~ Elmore Leonard
I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But only spirit wandering wide Through infinite immensity.
~ Emily Bronte
Je porte dans mon coeur des villes innombrables et des déserts illimités. Et le mal, le mal et la mort, étendus sur cette immensité, la couvrent comme la nuit couvre la terre. Je suis à moi seul un univers de pensées mauvaises. Il parlait ainsi parce que le désir de la femme était en lui.
~ Anatole France
The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
I did not have long to enjoy my freedom in tranquillity. My modest plans, like everyone else's, were about to be mocked by the immensity of events. As Plautus has it: Whatever the mind may hope for The future is in the hands of the gods.
~ Robert Harris
And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them, or melt them, or make them overflow. We can't flood them, or blow them up, or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching.
~ Laurie Anderson