Quotes About Inf

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

It occurred to Bo that Texas songs were always about the sky because there simply wasn't anything else. No hill, no mound, not even a ripple of earth to break the dizzying sweep of the eye toward infinity. "Flat," she decided, was a term insufficient to the terrain. It was more than that. It was actually a negative pull, an inverted gasp of ground beneath a firmament so boundless it might threaten the sanity of even those who weren't already pushing the edge.

Time...which is eternity in disguise.

I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.

It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

When I consider … the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me ['l'infinie immensité des espaces que j'ignore et qui m'ignorent'], I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? Pascal, Pensées

La nuit semblait une paupière bleue tirée sur l'œil infini du mystère.

The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]

El novelista Ray Cummings dice que el tiempo es «lo que evita que todo suceda a la vez». Todo lo que ha existido alguna vez, sigue existiendo, existirá, y todo lo que podría existir, existe ahora. El

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust." Still

In time, there are an infinity of worlds.

I am dizzy with infinity.

The most profound questions seem to have this fascinating aspect: Either they have no answer at all, or all possible answers seem impossible. So, here's one more profound question: Did anything exist before the Big Bang? Was the Big Bang the beginning of time? Or was there something before, some kind of eternal "meta-universe" that spawned our universe and possibly other universes?

Man] is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

Jon, wait before leave... I did the right thing didn't I? It all worked out in the end. 'In the end'? Nothing ends Adrian. Nothing ever ends. Jon? Wait! What do you mean by ...

for lightnings mark our transit and the corners of Eternity are opened.

When you see a picture of the ocean, it's cut off at the edges. You know it goes on and on to the right and on and on to the left, but you never really know how it feels to see that until you actually do see it.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.

Qual ponte, muti chiedemmo, qual ponte abbiamo noi gettato sull'infinito, che tutto ci appare ombra di eternità ?