Immense Quotes:

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Biographies, Appetite, Immense

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.108, Modern Library

topic: Want, Leisure, Immense

...I am the immense shadow of my tears

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Shadow, Tears, Immense

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

- Steven Morrissey

topic: Pride, Humans, Immense

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

- Gabriela Mistral

topic: Joy, Healthy, Immense

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Tools, Inspection, Immense

To be here is immense.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Generosity, Immense

An empire is an immense egotism.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.364

topic: Empires, Egotism, Immense

I can see the immense capacity of business to give leadership.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Giving, Capacity, Immense

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

- Megan Fox

topic: Pressure, Immense, Amount

The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Firsts, Knows, Immense

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Inspirational, Self Confidence, Gains, Tedium, Distaste

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Tedium, Distaste

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

- Philibert Joseph Roux

source: "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

topic: Real, Father, Men, Impotence, Losing Friends

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

- Henry James

source: "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

topic: Spider Web, Chamber, Suspended, Immense

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

- Octave Mirbeau

source: Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.149, Library of Alexandria

topic: Lying, Flower, Passion, Social Institutions, Human Suffering

The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.

- Freya Stark

topic: Lying, Dark, Voice, Immense

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, p.369, Penguin UK

topic: Knowing, People, Sensual, Possessing, Immense

The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

topic: Beach, Color, Sky, Desolate, Battering

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.

- Lisi Harrison

topic: Dream, Real, Eye, Immense

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

- Ignacy Jan Paderewski

topic: Pain, Suffering, Helping, Immense

That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Commitment, Warrior, Thinking, Coolness, Adulation

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

- Orville Prescott

topic: Loneliness, Differences, And Love, Suave, Immense

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

source: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.17, Storey Publishing

topic: Happy Birthday, Average, Two, Knitters, Immense

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

- Baron d'Holbach

topic: Order, Eels, Doubt, Flour, Immense

I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.

- George W. Bush

source: The Washington Post, June 02, 2003.

topic: Men, Want, Said, Immense

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

- Antonin Dvorak

source: Antonín Dvořák, Otakar Šourek (1954). “Antonín Dvořák: letters and reminiscences”, Da Capo Pr

topic: Country, People, Musician, Czech, Immense

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

- Theodore Sturgeon

source: Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

topic: Fiction, Trash, Existence, Immense

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

source: Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

topic: Effort, Growth, Resistance, Immense

In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions.

- Paul Goodman

source: Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.188, New York Review of Books

topic: Grief, Airplane, Fighting, Immense

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.897, e-artnow

topic: Blood, Sky, Black, Streaming, Treetops

Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

- Markus Zusak

topic: Stories, Pockets, Legion, Prove To Me, Immense

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

- Joë Bousquet

topic: Wind, Echoes, Body, Immense

Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent words to untangle it) Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming, So that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding Your life is sometimes a stone in you, and then, a star I was beginning to undertand poetry.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Stars, Home, Understanding, Immense

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2001). “Letters and Papers from Prison”, p.6, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

topic: Marriage, Journey, Joy, Immense

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

- John Ortberg

topic: Heart, People, Giving, Compliance, Immense

I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Falling In Love, Space, Stories, Outer Space, Immense

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.142, Del Rey

topic: Trying, Facts, Infinity, Hiker, Immense

Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.

- Derrick Jensen

topic: Responsibility, Civilization, Choices, Lifestyle Choices, Immense

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Book, Learning, Numbers, Immense

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

- Voltaire

source: Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

topic: Nature, Order, Eels, Flour, Immense

(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

topic: President, Diaries, Hay, Immense

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.69, Hamilton Books

topic: Thinking, Long, Giving, Immense

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

topic: Book, Choices, Library, Immense

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Reading, People, Theatre, Immense

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

- Theodore Roethke

topic: Wings, Light, Bird, Immense

and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.

- Robert Musil

topic: Religious, Struggle, Night, Faith Based, Primal

I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.

- Pat Conroy

topic: Book, Hands, Next, Immense

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

- John Linder

topic: Successful, Years, Iraq, Immense

We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.

- Paul Goodman

source: Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.8, New York Review of Books

topic: Tasks, Needs, Roles, Immense

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

- Colin Wilson

topic: Science, Feet, Survival, Mount Everest, Immense

Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.

- Eban Goodstein

topic: Opportunity, Skills, Imagination, Immense, Human Species

An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work in cars.

- Mark Lynas

topic: Sacrifice, Views, Car, Commuting, Outdated

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

- Pope Francis

source: Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.19

topic: Home, Climate, Looks, Lament, Beautiful Landscapes

The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

- Brian Aldiss

source: 1969 On space flight, in The Guardian.

topic: Homo Sapiens, Immense

The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

- Robert Payne

topic: Military, Oligarchy, Wealth, Immense

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

- Pierre-Simon Laplace

topic: Ignorance, Knowledge, Ignorant, Immense

My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition, or interest. Thanks are due not to me, but Thee, from whom all I possess is derived. And what are the paltry gifts for which my neighbor forgets to thank me, compared with the immense blessings for which I have so often forgotten to be grateful to Thee!

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

topic: Grateful, Ambition, Blessing, Immense

There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.

- Charles Webster Leadbeater

topic: Karma, Spiritual, Perfect, Spiritual Development, Spiritual Insight