Robert Fulghum Quotes

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

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

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.

I'm in a world so wide. It makes me feel small sometimes.

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

I had never seen an ocean before I came to Mumbai, something that now we take for granted. But the first time I stood in front of the ocean, it affected me for a week. I had never seen something as enormous. It consumed me completely.

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

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

I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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