Immense Quotes
551 Immense quotes by 445 unique authors
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The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the…
— Theodore Dreiser
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The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness;…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but…
— Paulo Coelho
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The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
— Henri Nouwen
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The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is…
— Alan Watts
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an…
— Carl Sagan
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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense…
— Jack Zipes
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can…
— Rajneesh
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There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny…
— Thomas Wolfe
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The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the…
— Carl Sagan
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You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for…
— Karl Marx
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I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
— August Strindberg
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She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
— John Green
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It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world…
— John O'Donohue
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She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...
— Angela Carter
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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a…
— Alan Watts
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The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.
— Edith Pattou
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In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my…
— Elie Wiesel
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...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a…
— Erlend Loe
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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond…
— Helen Keller
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You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains…
— Eugene Delacroix
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