Quotes About Inf

One of the things I realized was that the universe had been evolving for countless billions of years

cada hombre reside temporalmente en su prójimo y este en aquel y así sucesivamente en una infinita cadena de ser y de testigo hasta los más remotos confines del mundo.

Geschichten haben nie ein Ende, Meggie«, hatte er mal zu ihr gesagt, »auch wenn uns die Bücher das gern vorgaukeln. Die Geschichten gehen immer weiter, sie enden ebenso wenig mit der letzten Seite, wie sie mit der ersten beginnen.«

Perhaps only this: that the greatest danger in life is certainty. Yes, I do believe that. Our last redoubt in the world is wonder. Wonder and unknowing. Now and then a random detail will stir me to faint recognitions: a row of dead beetles in the grass; the chapped knees of some dowager on the S-bahn. Tantalizing signs reminding me that infinity billows out from every moment. That's when I lean in, sniff the air, cock my ears like a foxhound- and listen.

It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends

She was old; millions of years old, she felt.

When did one come to an end? In which direction was it finished? There was no end, no finish, only this roaring vast space. Did one never get old, never die? That was the clue.

In the end, the soul is alone brooding on the face of the uncreated flux, as a bird on a dark sea...

On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a speck, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing.

You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possibly live in either of those eternities—no, not even for one split second.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder.

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that, Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that. -from Song of Myself

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Soy una infinidad de cosas ya cumplidas y una inmensidad de cosas por cumplir.

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow

O I see life is not short but immeasurably long -from Myself and Mine

Más allá de mis ojos está el espacio sin límites y más allá de mis números está el tiempo sin ritmo: Dios.

El reloj marca los minutos… pero ¿y la eternidad? ¿Qué marca la eternidad?

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle, Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.

Beyond thy lectures learn'd professor, Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics ... The entities of entities, eidólons. Unfix'd yet fix'd, Ever shall be, ever have been and are, Sweeping the present to the infinite future, Eidólons, eidólons, eidólons.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars...