Vastness Quotes

Silence is not the absence of anything, but the presence of everything.

— Swami Premodaya

Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

— Douglas Lockwood

“What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.”

— Agnostic Zetetic

“Only Vastness of Character defines us…”

— Amit Deep Kumar- SoulCuppa

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

— Jim Lovell

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

— Steven Erikson

The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

— Dean Koontz

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

— David Eagleman

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

— Fabien Cousteau

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

— David Means

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

— Carl Sagan

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with…

— Carl Sagan

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

— Sri Aurobindo

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space…

— Jeb Bush

Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point…

— Carl Sagan

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held…

— Carl Sagan

A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a…

— D.T. Suzuki

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these…

— Joan Halifax

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very…

— Cat Stevens

“Have you ever noticed how many adjectives you have to describe your intellect?” “Not nearly enough. The dictionary should have more words…

— Ruby Lionsdrake

I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals,…

— Scott Bradfield

The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have…

— Eckhart Tolle

What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images…

— Clifford A. Pickover

It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you…

— Marion Irvine

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“The earth is an orbiting speck in incomprehensible vastness. The histories of our civilizations, our accomplishments and secrets, great good and evil—these…

— Christopher Hawke

Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in…

— Harvey Broome

It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

“We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in…

— Carl Sagan

“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human…

— Thomas Ligotti

“The Manger of Incidentals " We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power…

— Jack Gilbert

“I adore the ocean and its vastness, as if it is trying to teach me something, as if it is trying to…

— Mehek Bassi

“The joy of small that makes life large. Hadn't I personally experienced it before too, that vantage point that gave a sense…

— Ann Voskamp

“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.…

— Michael Finkel

“I wondered stony afternoons owning all their vastness.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

— Carl Sagan