vastness of the world Quotes

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback.

The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain.

I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.