Vastness Quotes

103 Vastness quotes by 83 unique authors

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may… — Carl Sagan
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite… — Virginia Woolf
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
The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will… — Carlos Castaneda
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and… — Conrad Hilton
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help… — Carl Sagan
Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself. — Steven Erikson
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only… — Carl Sagan
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody… — Madeleine L'Engle
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. — Carl Sagan
Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The… — Sri Chinmoy
My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above… — Susan Hill
It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something… — Lauren Oliver
Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the… — Cheryl Strayed
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. — Carl Sagan
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison… — Anthony de Mello
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder… — Carl Sagan
Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to… — Clarice Lispector
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the… — Eckhart Tolle
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story… — Rebecca Solnit
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
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. — R. Buckminster Fuller
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always. — Byron Katie
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential. — Unknown Author

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