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Enormity Quotes

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Carl Sagan
“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. But most of all, there is very nearly nothing in the dark; except for little bits here and there, often associated with the light, this infinite receptacle is empty.

This picture is strangely frightening. It should be familiar. It is our universe.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are, as sand, as dust, or less than dust, in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Nothing! We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s Pensées and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

[From an undated, handwritten piece of text from the early 1950s which Sagan wrote when he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago]”
Carl Sagan

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Anupama Garg
“Love can only be expressed through actions. Words fail to encompass its enormity”
Anupama Garg, The Tantric Curse

Neal Shusterman
“Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking out galaxies.”
Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don’t have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wayne Koestenbaum
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You've silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness, and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished your physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”
Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To be effective in fulfilling your goals, you must break them down into little tasks and then spend most of your time working on the task in front of you, instead of being overwhelmed by the enormity of the big goal.”
Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Mortal man has always sought to reduce the “infiniteâ€� into the finite in order to understand it and in
doing so has missed the mark completely. It was not until I could see, with the help of modern science,
the larger portion of the universe with all it’s myriad stars and galaxies that the enormity of God
really struck me,”
Lawrence Boudreau, Wisdom From the Watcher on the Wall: The Legacy of Larry