Quotes About Enormity

#1. David slayed Goliath with a single stone.
You crippled my heart with a single lie.
This is the enormity of small things.

Key Ballah

#2. Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

David Levithan

#3. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity.

Jacqueline Woodson

#4. This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

Ben Jonson

#5. Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in the tiniest of gestures, the most delicate sensations.

David Levithan

#6. With that kiss, I tried to tell him the enormity of what he meant to me. I tried to show him that he was the answer to a question I hadn't even known I had been asking. I tried to thank him for wanting me to be me, more than he wanted to make me stay.

Jojo Moyes

#7. The occasion's enormity: The birth of a friendship being no less momentous than the instant of falling in love.

Leah Hager Cohen

#8. People are willing to be brave when they admit their smallness within the enormity of the world, and the best way to understand our smallness is to leave our comfort zones and start exploring, one foot in front of the other.

Tsh Oxenreider

#9. As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

Todd Gitlin

#10. War is advocated by those who fail to understand the horrible enormity of it." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#11. Suddenly the enormity of it crashed down on me . . .

Rachel Caine

#12. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.

William Golding

#13. For one of the odd things about death, Trudy has discovered, is that in its wake one must go about business as usual; it seems heartless and wrong, but now that the rituals of mourning have been attended to, the sole task left to Trudy is to try and comprehend the enormity of thes sudden change.

Jenna Blum

#14. I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

Duncan Fletcher

#15. Being back here - I'm suddenly confronting the enormity of that kind of commitment. And just how much you can fuck someone up if you half-ass it.

Emma McLaughlin

#16. I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done ... I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my
accomplishment.

Al Geiberger

#17. Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#19. No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Simon Mainwaring

#20. A pebble thrown in a pool
may ripple from end to end,
but tossed into the sea,
it is swallowed by enormity.

Craig Froman

#21. I am hit with the enormity of the impact that this family is having in my life. They, and mostly Chris, are saving me. Or teaching me to save myself.

Jessica Park

#22. What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?

David Levithan

#23. I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#24. She is surprised that she is still alive in this moment, that she has survived meeting with these feelings, that she has not been engulfed and eaten alive by the enormity of the pain.

Sara Alexi

#25. It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

#26. Rachel's face was still looking at Mathilde from the dark when she went back upstairs. The marital suite, the bed obscene in its empty enormity. In her absence, the sheets had been changed. When she climbed in again, they were cool and smelled like lavender and brushed her skin like accusations.

Lauren Groff

#27. I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

A.M. Homes

#28. I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Edna O'Brien

#29. Orba (feminine), the Latin word for orphaned, parentless, childless, widowed. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. But it has. Orbus, orba, orbum, orbi, orbae, orborum, orbo, orbis...

Jacqueline Woodson

#30. We are face to face with enormity again, but this time we are going to make it through. It is a moment we can get out of. Together.

David Levithan

#31. I feel really blessed for the journey, all that I have learnt & the enormity of emotions that exist because of the presence of you.

Truth Devour

#32. Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life - for the changes, not only in my life, but my family's. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through.

Matt Smith

#33. It was the enormity of war, she thought, it left you scrabbling for ways to think about it. Bridget

Kate Atkinson

#34. And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

Diane Ackerman

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#38. Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

Jon Krakauer

#39. By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

Ian McEwan

#40. I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

Lars Von Trier

#41. The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.

Gustav Holst

#42. Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

Molly Ringwald

#44. For a man as keen as he on getting into bed with women, keeping hidden the full enormity of his fatness was a chronic problem. Its most acute form naturally came up when someone new had to be hustled or cajoled past the point of no return. That point tended to get later and later as his belly waxed.

Kingsley Amis

#45. When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.

David Levithan

#46. What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Matthieu Ricard

#47. To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

Tom Cullen

#48. There is a point when a man may swim back to shore, but he was past it. There was nothing left but to be swallowed by the enormity of the sea.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

#49. Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

Francis Chan

#50. We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.

Margaret Thatcher

#51. the enormity of loss couldnt be born without the promise of something greater

Melissa A. Craven

#52. Other times escape our notice, slipping by while we are preoccupied, and we do not appreciate their enormity until it's too late to do anything but regret that we had not paid more attention in the present.

Kevin Hearne

#53. There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge effect on people's mood. They were going about their business, mostly.

Daniel Kahneman

#54. It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#55. Things go wrong occasionally, but when you focus on that, you miss the enormity of what goes right.

Loretta Graziano Breuning

#56. The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Bridges McCall

#57. No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.

Fisher Amelie

#58. In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for us, we fall prey to putting the outside world's needs before our own. We then disconnect from the enormity of our power and our ability to create what we want.

Debbie Ford

#59. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

Harper Lee

#60. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane.

George Orwell

#61. He swept in like a tsunami, wave after wave, and I didn't stand a chance. All those warnings, all the things they tried to prepare me for - lost in an instant - to the enormity of what I felt.

Lang Leav

#62. The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference - by offering
living proof.

John Capecci And Timothy Cage

#63. We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Emile M. Cioran

#64. Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

Victor Hugo

#65. Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices ... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth ...

Peter Damian

#66. I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.

Jo Bonner

#67. When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

Paul David Washer

#68. 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

#69. And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

David Levithan

#70. When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.

Antony Beevor

#71. Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

John Stuart Mill

#72. At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.

J. D. McClatchy

#73. They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood

William Golding

#74. Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

Wm. Paul Young

#75. Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened.

Roma Downey

#76. To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

Michael Rapaport

#77. 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