Infinity Quotes - Page 19

• What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Photograph, Repeats

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• People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion.

  Amin Maalouf

  Others Opinions, Opposites, People

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• Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

  Lily Tomlin

  Science, Ego, Ego Trip

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• We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, Government, People

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• O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

  George Sterling

  Stars, Space, Sun

  George Sterling (1904). “The Testimony of the Suns, and Other Poems”

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• Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.

  Joseph Murphy

  Life, Eye, House

  Joseph Murphy (2012). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Boredom, Trying, Window

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• To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday life and a secure job, a yearning for something really truly greater. Is this simply an empty dream that fades away as we become older? No! Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Dream, Jobs

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• Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Men, Perception, Caverns

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• ...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

  Norton Juster

  Mean, Trying, Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.163, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Religious, Nice

  Oscar Niemeyer (2003). “Oscar Miemeyer, a Legend of Modernism”

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• The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Disappointment, Discovery

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• But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Silence, God's Creation

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• When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

  Alice Sebold

  Light, Dust, Yellow

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• In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.

  Alan Lightman

  Real, Moving, Fate

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

  Rudy Rucker

  God, Education, Math

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

  Rudy Rucker

  Teaching, Math, Drawing

  Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.273, Courier Corporation

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• The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Night, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that’s why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Fate, Fire

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• It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

  John Green

  Time, Forever, Infinite

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• The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

  Grant Morrison

  Skulls, Portal, Interiors

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• I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

  Steven Wright

  Tired, Night, Trying

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• If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.

  James Joyce

  Lasts, Firsts, Succeed

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.580, GENERAL PRESS

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• The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

  Henri Bergson

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

  Henri Bergson (2012). “Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Infinite, Moments, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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