Immensity Quotes

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help… — Desmond Tutu
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy… — Sam Harris
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot,… — Immanuel Kant
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the… — Nikolai Gogol
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… — Sam Harris
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love… — Guy de Maupassant
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought,… — Don DeLillo
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in… — Pablo Neruda
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness,… — Ann Druyan
It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life.… — P.D. James
I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. — Pat Conroy
What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all… — Marina Tsvetaeva
Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would… — Wernher von Braun
I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity — Mina Loy
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such… — Theodore Sturgeon
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the… — William Blake
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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