Immensity Quotes
101 quotes by 83 authors
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If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal,…
— Charles Dickens
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[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence…
— Blaise Pascal
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It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired…
— Boris Pasternak
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The immensity of the universe didn’t suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that greater light, mankind…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth.…
— Duane Michals
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One thought fills an immensity.
— Jaume Plensa
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Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of…
— Michel de Montaigne
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In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families,…
— Frederick Lenz
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Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the…
— Michael Faraday
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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
— Todd Gitlin
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The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity.…
— John O'Donohue
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I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.
— Carl Sagan
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The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will…
— Brigham Young
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The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.
— Frederick Lenz
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My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the…
— Norman Mailer
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