Boundless Expanse Quotes

In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.