Anubhav Sinha Quotes

There is something in sheer volume that awes and terrifies, lifts us out of ourselves.

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

I think everyone's had that moment where you're sitting there in class and notice someone for the first time.

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.

Every job still feels like the first time.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

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

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

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

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.