Immensity Quotes - Page 2

• Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.

  Samuel Johnson

  Squares, Cities, Together

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.72

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Thinking, Challenges, India

  16 Copy quote

• Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

  Jacques Monod

  Writing, Science, Destiny

  17 Copy quote

• I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Hero, Journey

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 7, 1842.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.

  Merlin Stone

  Women, Cutting, Years

  8 Copy quote

• Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

  Todd Gitlin

  Media, Navigation, Manage

  30 Copy quote

• 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

  Time, Space, Joy

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

  Wernher von Braun

  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.

  105 Copy quote

  Show source

• The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Book, Love Is, Sea

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.

  Winifred Holtby

  Congratulations, Race, Ignorant

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.

  John H. Groberg

  Space, Needed, Feels

  10 Copy quote

• If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Heaven

  55 Copy quote

• He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Marching On, Mountain

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.536, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Heart

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.33, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Lying, Emotional, Space

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Crazy, Humility, Science

  7 Copy quote

• Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Stars, Men

  "Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", www.imdb.com. 1936.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

  Jacques Monod

  Fate, Science, Men

  11 Copy quote

• Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

  Charles Lapworth

  Science, Two, Earth

  Proceedings of the Geological Survey of London. "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Carl C. Gaither, p. 873, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.

  P. D. James

  Stars, Intelligent, Credit

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.14, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and when they have accumulated half a dozen unread books, feel so bad that they are afraid to buy more. In contrast, the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Desire, Half

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn for and hate it. In other words, at the cross God becomes larger and we become smaller. This separation is at the heart of the fear of God. This "fear" opens God's wisdom to us because only in light of God's immensity can I see the importance of living for the right end, his glory. And only in the light of my smallness can I feel overawed by the means he used to save me, his cross.

  William F. Farley

  Hate, Mean, Heart

  5 Copy quote

• There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.

  Giordano Bruno

  Stars, Science, Space

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 the eye can wander through worlds of light— When I am not and none beside— Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky— But only spirit wandering wide Through infinite immensity.

  Emily Bronte

  Home, Eye, Moon

  8 Copy quote