Vast Quotes

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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together. — Yoko Ono
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate… — Garrison Keillor
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. — Cormac McCarthy
The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will… — George W. Bush
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth… — Rebecca Solnit
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces… — Arundhati Roy
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms… — Stanley Kubrick
I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful… — Stephen R. Lawhead
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds,… — Tom Robbins
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all… — Flannery O'Connor
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast… — Douglas Coupland
I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it. — Annie Dillard
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people… — Haruki Murakami
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around… — Mark Z. Danielewski
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by… — Edith Wharton
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where… — Isaac Asimov
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world,… — Clive Barker
[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving a car, depending,… — Don DeLillo

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