Immense Quotes

551 Immense quotes by 445 unique authors

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. — Pope John XXIII
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all… — Henry David Thoreau
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like… — Loren Eiseley
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I want leisure to read—an immense amount. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it… — Guy de Maupassant
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath… — Thomas Merton
You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver… — Lois Lowry
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the… — Aldous Huxley
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It… — Che Guevara
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled… — Joan Didion
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under… — Joseph Conrad
Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with… — Audrey Niffenegger
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he… — Kenneth Grahame
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness… — Simone de Beauvoir
The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love. — Jeanette Winterson
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo. — JoÃ« Bousquet
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent… — Maggie Stiefvater
...I am the immense shadow of my tears — Federico Garcia Lorca
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in… — John Ortberg
I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what… — Jeanette Winterson

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