Infinity Quotes - Page 21

• But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.

  Lauren Oliver

  Life, Winning, Track

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Rooms”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Numbers, Understanding

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• [L]ove is inventive to infinity.

  Vincent de Paul

  Charity

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (2008). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Thinking, Missing

  "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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• No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Tangled, Soul

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.408, Penguin UK

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
  Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
  your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
  and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
  slips through the narrow channels of blood
  to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
  to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Dark, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Heart, Tunnels, Swings

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• Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Ego

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• Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Desire, Purpose, Betrayed

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• He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Stars

  Jenny Han (2011). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Hell, Monotonous

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Inward, Cosmos, Looks

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.19, Spectra

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• There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour. It is not so obvious as the greenness of England, but it is infinitely more varied and more delicate in tone. The landscape is a pinky mauve, a lilac, and the reflection of the sun of the particles of the atmosphere is a warm amber. So I should say our colour scheme is amber and lilac.

  Hans Heysen

  Reflection, Atmosphere, Amber

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• I see the beauty of God's archetypal infinity reflected in the towers of infinities in set theory

  Vern Poythress

  Towers, Theory

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• I am sitting here 93 million miles from the sun on a rounded rock which is spinning at the rate of 1000 miles an hour... and my head pointing down into space with nothing between me and infinity but something called gravity which I can't even understand, and which you can't even buy any place so as to have some stored away for a gravityless day.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Rocks, Space

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

  David Icke

  Unique, Race, Tiny

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• When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

  George Washington Carver

  Flower, Years, Long

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• The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

  Epicurus

  Wealth, Easy, Vain

  "Principal Doctrines". Translated by Robert Drew Hicks,

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• The greatest investment and greatest fair deal and enterprise is family, cozy homes. A cozy home is based on cozy people. Cozy people are not brought and imported, they are made from the time of birth to the time of infinity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
  It is something that we must build up. You have to create within yourself the experience of beauty, liberation, and infinity. This is health.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Drug, Pills, Body

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• Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Mushrooms, Names

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• Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Men And Women, Enough

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• The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.

  Edmund Burke

  Stars, Lying, Views

  Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.154

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• There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.

  Stephen Hawking

  Light, Black, Horizon

  "Stephen Hawking: There Are No Black Holes" by Audrey Barrick, www.christianpost.com. January 25, 2014.

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• When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

  Sylvia Earle

  Blue, Sea, People

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