Quote by Frank Moore Colby

“The idea of a Universe didn’t fit into their world picture, so to speak. They simply couldn’t cope with it. And so, charmingly, delightfully,…

— Douglas Adams

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“The huge liquid eyes seemed to look deep down into my soul, and far, far beyond towards nameless, unexplored vistas of the infinite.”

— Anthony Powell

“No one should ever be deprived of a horizon.”

— Maude Julien

“Given the infinite variety of human personalities, it was impossible to like everyone.”

— Anne McCaffrey

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“They seemed nothing more now than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creatures of my temperament”

— Marcel Proust

“It seemed foolish and wasteful and wonderful—to live as if the sky were endless and time itself had no measure.”

— Cameron Stracher

“The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of…

— C. Robert Cargill

“... he felt unusually warm toward humankind. He even thought that it could warm to him. Everyone, all of us, individually facing oblivion as…

— Ian McEwan

“For at that time everything which was not myself, the earth and the creatures upon it, seemed to me more precious, more important, endowed…

— Marcel Proust

“There is a craziness in it all that betokens a kind of delicious freedom. Notions are cast off. If only for a moment. They…

— Sebastian Barry