Quotes About Space

What shall prevail against the spirit of man, When cold, the lean and snarling wolf of hunger, The threatening spear of ice-mailed Solitude, Silence, and space, and ghostly-footed Fear Prevail not?

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

The spiritual idea of distances of space is the same as of distances of good or distances of truth, which are affinities and likenesses according to states of goodness and truth.

Un zîmbet inepuizabil, pe spatiul unei lacrimi...

What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.

De câte ori timpul este suspendat, iar conÈ™tiinÈ›a se epuizeaz? în percepÈ›ia spaÈ›iului, o dispoziÈ›ie eleatic? pune st?pânire pe noi È™i atunci înm?rmurirea lucrurilor anuleaz? amintirile într-o clip? veÈ™nic?. PriveÈ™ti spre tot È™i totul nu pare decât o aÈ™teptare inutil? È™i f?r? de sfârÈ™it.

Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space!

Ces idées qui survolent l'espace, et qui, tout à coup, se heurtent aux parois du crâne...

Death is not altogether useless: after all, it is because of death that we may be able to recuperate the prenatal space, our only space....

Not to have been born, merely musing on that—what happiness, what freedom, what space!

Death reaches so far, requires so much room, that I no longer know where to die.

Who among us, left to himself, would not take up space, air itself, and regard himself as its owner?

There is not room for Death.

The dance is four-dimensional art in that it moves concretely in both space and time. For the onlooker, it is an art largely of visual space combined with time. But for the dancer, and this is more important, the dance is more a muscular than a visual space rhythm, a muscular time, a muscular movement and balance. Dancing is not animated sculpture, it is kinesthetic.

From the moment we met, I as a butterfly that flew into that space that was his soul, a room where the light had begun to dim.

Peace and acceptance suddenly fell into my hands. Like a patch of rich soil that had soaked up plenty of sun mounding gently up into an empty space, I felt something akin to an answer settle in me.

She felt herself as the speck she was: a mote, a tiny struggling imperfect chip of life, lost in the surrounding waste of light and space.

She chattered on about the Inn. 'I'm a genius,' she said. 'I got three hundred people into two rooms that were meant to hold two hundred and fifty. And they're happy. Deep down, people are really sardines. They love being squeezed together.

more space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself.

Our living space is our closest companion, part self, part other relationships, always communicating, always reflecting our process of change.

our living space is our closest companion, always communicating, always reflecting our process of change)

I think of the emptiness of outer space, and the men in their little pods going up there alone, wives and girlfriends left behind. I think of Abel and me lying on the grass, looking up at the stars, and how great that was, but, still, I was always waiting for him to turn his head. To look at me

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner

If we suppose for a moment that space exists, and that God placed the world in it, why did He place it in the spot it occupies instead of any other spot, all space being alike, and no one point being preferable to any other point? God acted without having a reason, for if space is, His choice of a place was arbitrary; but God cannot act irrationally. Therefore space is not.