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Quotes About Universe

Vertitur interea caelum et ruit oceano nox, inuoluens umbra magna terramque polumque.
~ Virgil
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
~ Virginia Woolf
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
~ Virginia Woolf
We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
~ Virginia Woolf
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order
~ Virginia Woolf
I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
~ Virginia Woolf
Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
~ Virginia Woolf
They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love
~ Virginia Woolf
Asa, intr-o zi de vara valurile se aduna, se inalta, cumpanindu-se, si cad; se aduna si cad; si universul intreg pare sa spuna, sa spuna mereu, "asta e tot" mereu mai apasat, iar inima din trupul care sta intins la soare pe tarm spune si ea. Asta e tot. Nu te mai teme, spune inima. Nu te mai teme,spune inima, incredintandu-si povara vreunei mari care suspina obstesc pentru toate tristetile; si reia, incepe, aduna, lasa sa cada.
~ Virginia Woolf
Do you have any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?
~ Virginia Woolf
I reflect now that the earth is only a pebble flicked off accidentally from the face of the sun and that there is no life anywhere in the abysses of space.
~ Virginia Woolf
Nos han cortado, hemos caído. Nos hemos convertido en parte del insensible universo que duerme cuanto más despiertos estamos, y que arde, rojo, cuando nosotros yacemos dormidos. Hemos renunciado a nuestra sazón y ahora estamos tumbados, inertes, marchitos, y muy pronto seremos olvidados. Bernard
~ Virginia Woolf
She stood there: she listened. She heard the names of the stars.
~ Virginia Woolf
Essi divenivano parte di quell'universo irreale, ma fervido e intenso, che è il mondo visto attraverso occhi d'amore.
~ Virginia Woolf
Monstrously Remote: "Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I immediately draw radii from my love—from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter—to monstrously remote points of the universe… the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time." – Speak Memory (1966)
~ Vladimir Nabokob
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
what stars, what thought and sadness up above, and what ignorance below.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The game of the gods. Infinite possibilities.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The clichés are, of course, disguised; essentially, they are the same throughout all cheap reading matter, whether it spans the universe or the living room. They are like those 'assorted' cookies that differ from one another only in shape and shade.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I not only debar too definite a planet from any role in my story – from the role every dot and full stop should play in my story (which I see as a kind of celestial chart).
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
~ lanier jaron ii
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms
~ Lao Tzu