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Quotes About Inf

Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
~ Elizabeth Berg
When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Era un fragmento diminuto del universo, pero también era exactamente del tamaño del universo
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
nature, in her limitlessness, has no concern for the boundaries of our mortal imaginations.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see.
~ Ellen Emerson White
Meanwhile, the original programmers will have left, and their replacements -- believing they understand the code -- will make some truly spectacular errors, mistakes that will suddenly make everything completely stop working for a while. So that what had seemed to be a descending curve of bugs, a fall toward the ever-receding zero, will reveal itself as the shape of another equation altogether: a line of relentlessly rising, bug-counts climbing in an endless battle against infinity.
~ Ellen Ullman
By the grace of pataphysics, two telepathic letters from the Doctor to Lord Kelvin, and some geometrical equations, we are instructed that the exception is more reliable than the rule, imagination more accurate than fact, poetry more authentic than life, that Man is God, and God is the Tangential Point Between Zero and Infinity.
~ Alfred Jarry
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
~ Alfred Jarry
Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became A universe. Something similar happen to man. A new 'man' was produced, just as good, certainly contraditory to the old one. THE man became A man, otherwise a 'conceptual construction', one among the infinity of possible ones.
~ Alfred Korzybski
And though the pack in every direction appeared to stretch in endless desolation
~ Alfred Lansing
It was as if they had suddenly emerged into infinity. They had an ocean to themselves, a desolate, hostile vastness. Shackleton thought of the lines of Coleridge: Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea.
~ Alfred Lansing
And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-longThat on the stretched forefinger of all TimeSparkle forever.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
For men may come and men may go,But I go on forever.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Here was the stillness of eternity.
~ Algernon Blackwood
You (humans) think that you are insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
It was all : it was nothing : it was more than enough.
~ Ali Smith
I create death, and time.
~ Alice Notley
Though Here's so total.
~ Alice Notley
I have made myself different eyes, to see down the infinite alleyways the universe dissolves into, at each ecstatic footfall
~ Alice Notley
one of the many mass-produced particles of time
~ Alice Oswald