Quotes about Vastness
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
- Mark Twain
I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.
- Albert Einstein
The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet.
- Anonymous
how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars.
- Edith Wharton
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
- Fanny Crosby
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way.
- William Wordsworth
All this under a magnificent blue sky.
- Elie Wiesel
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
- Robert Frost
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
- Cormac McCarthy