Immensity Quotes
101 quotes by 82 authors
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Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That…
— Jane Hirshfield
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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth…
— Dean Koontz
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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen…
— Umberto Eco
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I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon is bright And…
— Emily Bronte
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In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We…
— Ellen Hopkins
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It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
— Italo Calvino
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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can…
— Blaise Pascal
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
— Victor Hugo
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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee…
— Victor Hugo
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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
— Carl Sagan
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Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
— H.G. Wells
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I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out…
— Ray Bradbury
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Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.
— Martin Gardner
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create…
— Paracelsus
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Once a man has imagined the immensity of space, has contemplated evolution and the magnitude of its duration, and has walked through the mighty boulders…
— Franklin P Jones
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The immensity of the universe is terrifying and lonely if we do not love each other.
— Melchor Lim
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Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of…
— John Joly
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Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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You Cannot fathom the immensity of fucks my brain cannot be fucked to give out freely under the circumstances that you should just FUCK OFF.
— Unknown Author
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