Universe Quotes

It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

~ Valerie Plame

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

~ Said Nursi

We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.

~ Richie Havens

May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

~ Virchand Gandhi

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

~ Tom Robbins

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

~ Jacques Lacan

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

~ Adrienne Rich

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

~ Lao Tzu

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

~ Buddha

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

~ George Carlin

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

~ Seth Shostak

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

~ John Osborne

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

~ Stephen Vizinczey

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

~ John Muir

When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

~ Brian Greene

Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

~ Dan Lipinski

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

~ Marina Abramović

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

~ Orson Pratt

Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

~ N. T. Wright