Quotes About Inf

Long ago, Louis Wu had stood at the void edge of Mount Lookitthat. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Louis's eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Louis Wu, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see? Now he reaffirmed that decision.

In his view of what he wanted from the world, there were an infinity of moments that were beautiful, as this one was beautiful, with the light from the town hall gilding her jawline and shining off her hair in the cold northern night that made him want to pull her in and warm them both. "And

Behind him there's still the mirror…a bit of infinity, which in its disinterest still holds their reflections safely in it.

in the length of time measured by infinity, and in the size of a world measured by countless universes, is it possible to believe that our lives are anything more than a few blades of grass?

Everything felt both huge and small, as if the plane were hanging from a string held by the hands of gods.

Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other.

Perhaps it wasn't that time had frozen but that it was now moving at the pace of infinity. A moment now becomes a century.

I'll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I will not be bound by anything but my love for you.

You're saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. That maybe they're bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn't take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.

In galactic terms, four years is but a nano-second.

Time is the fabric that makes space possible.

The whole of God is present in each and every point of God.

The Infinite Reality that cannot be contained in all the universes upon universes can fit into the heart of the believer.

Transcend the opposites of death and life; find the Point of Singularity in which the two become One. Know that birth and death are the crest and trough of One Wave.

Infinity is integral. Integral means whole, intact, undivided, full and unbroken. Infinity cannot be divided against itself. The One is also coherent. Coherent means clear, consistent, sonorous, intelligible. All Divine Reality is present in each and every point within itself.

To God, through God, Beyond God.

L'éternité n'est pas dans le temps, elle est dans la profondeur. Dans son vertige.

And yet this self, contains Tides, continents and stars?a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-blade Passed over by the wind Amongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.

Sometime on the far side of never.

Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity.

Here the stars dazzled her eyes like sequins. This is what infinity looks like, she thought. Their clarity overwhelmed her, like pinpricks at her heart.

It was like a landscape they could not see all at once; it was like the sky at night, which turned and turned so they couldn't find its edges. It would always feel too big.

Everything, she had come to understand, was something like infinity. They might never come close, but they could approach a point where, for all intents and purposes, she knew all that she needed to know.

up there: nothing but stars.