Top 166 Vastness Quotes & Sayings

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from.

We are living in an inspiring and unimaginably large universe. Contemplating the immensity of our cosmos can make you feel very small and insignificant. But think about it. You have 37.2 trillion cells in your body. There is vastness outside you and vastness inside you. You are connected to this mystery, you are a microcosm of the universe, and every aspect of your life benefits from the universe's provision.

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human.

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 when we're falling.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

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 ever feel completely at home?

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . .

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 its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

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 think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.

To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

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 their country.

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

Wrestling went from being sometimes comical to very serious, and there was a lot of depth regarding the vastness in which people performed.

The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

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 to the business potential.

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 all I've got!

When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn't feel terribly comfortable in it.

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I felt like the gesture carried an enormous amount of responsibility.

That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?