Quotes About Inf

Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.

The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity--even if theirs is an infinity that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities.

Starkey's not stopping unwinding, Bam. All he's doing is making sure it never, ever ends!

Free man, you will always cherish the sea! The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul In the infinite unrolling of its billows; Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.

Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.

Au-dessus des étangs, au-dessus des vallées, Des montagnes, des bois, des nuages, des mers, Par delà le soleil, par delà les éthers, Par delà les confins des sphères étoilées

And intoxicated by madness I screamed furiously: "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!" Though such capricious endeavors are not without peril, and one must often pay dearly for them, what does an eternity of damnation compare with an infinity of pleasure in a single second?

Que tu viennes du ciel ou de l'enfer, qu'importe, Ô Beauté, monstre énorme, effrayant, ingénu! Si ton Å"il, ton souris, ton pied, m'ouvrent la porte D'un Infini que j'aime et n'ai jamais connu ? De Satan ou de Dieu, qu'importe ? Ange ou Sirène, Qu'importe, si tu rends, – fée aux yeux de velours, Rythme, parfum, lueur, ô mon unique reine ! – L'univers moins hideux et les instants moins lourds.

el marco negro vuelve la mirada más profunda y singular, confiere al ojo una apariencia más resuelta de ventana abierta sobre el infinito; el colorete, que enciende el pómulo, aumenta aún más la claridad de la pupila y añade a un bello rostro femenino la pasión misteriosa de la sacerdotisa.

Num?rul sufletelor este finit sau infinit?

La miré. Todo el cielo y toda la tierra corrían por aquellos ojos.

In string theory, zero has been banished from the universe; there is no such thing as zero distance or zero time. This solves all the infinity problems of quantum mechanics.

In Cantor's mind there were an infinite number of infinities-the transfinite numbers-each nested in the other. Aleph 0 is smaller than Aleph 1, which is smaller than Aleph 2, which is smaller than Aleph 3, and so forth. At the top of the chain sits the ultimate infinity that engulfs all other infinities: God, the infinity that defies all comprehension.

Each word, as someone once wrote, contains the universe. The visible carries all the invisible on its back. Tonight, in the unconditional, what moves in the long-limbed grasses, what touches me As though I didn't exist? What is it that keeps on moving, a tiny pillar of smoke Erect on its hind legs, loose in the hollow grasses? A word I don't know yet, a little word, containing infinity, Noiseless and unrepentant, in sift through the dry grass.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?)

What normal people perceive as the instant of "now" is in fact just the blanket average of an infinity of time-spikes that spring up and disappear at the interface between the fluid future and the crystallized past. The spikes are quantum extensions of the past into the future, but they're far too brief to have any effect on the world's smooth continuity.

A man with the right kind of power can be immortal by means of it, if he takes care to live on the sea.

As for the present-day Festivals they were endless--blurred--going on forever so that no one knew where one had ended in the next begun.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Leigh-Cheri went out in the blackberries and wept. "I'll follow him to the ends of the earth," she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.