Vastness Quotes

103 Vastness quotes by 83 unique authors

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. — Robert Delaunay
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. — Emily Carr
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one… — Christiaan Huygens
It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with… — Rachel Naomi Remen
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral... — Coleman Barks
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed… — Jaron Lanier
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids… — Harvey Broome
[I attach] little importance to physical size. I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but… — Frank P. Ramsey
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of… — Baz Luhrmann
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge,… — Meher Baba
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once… — Luther Burbank
The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi. — Criss Jami
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. — Ray Bradbury
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. — Maria Mitchell
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. — Carl Sagan
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. — Carl Sagan
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's… — John Shelby Spong
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they… — Cat Stevens
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a… — Bertrand Russell
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is… — Yann Martel
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift… — Terry Goodkind
I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more… — Amy Tan

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