Simon McBurney Quotes

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

Some things were beyond understanding.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

All things are infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small also is infinite. And when they are all together, the parts are not clear and distinct because of their smallness