Enormity Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. — Emile M. Cioran
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. — Matthieu Ricard
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I… — Anne Hathaway
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would… — Primo Levi
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it. — Michael Rapaport
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform… — John Perry Barlow
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them,… — George Orwell
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything,… — Peter Damian
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind… — Gustav Holst
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant. — Edna O'Brien
It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label… — Stephen Levine
It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given… — Niall Williams
When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us. — Paul Washer
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose… — William J. Brennan
In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for… — Debbie Ford
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore… — Francis Chan
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same… — Charles Lamb
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood… — Thomas Szasz
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens

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