Top 100 The Universe Is Quotes
#1. I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.
Rufus Sewell
#2. The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.
Jeff Goldblum
#3. The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
Bill Vaughan
#4. When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all?
On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.
Erlend Loe
#5. Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#6. I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
Madeleine L'Engle
#7. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has proved that if two black holes unite, the surface area of the final black hole must exceed the sum of the surface areas of the initial black holes. For these reasons the total black-hole portion of the universe is ever increasing.
Clifford A. Pickover
#9. The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.
Anne Ursu
#10. A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
Rebecca West
#11. And one of the most serious things for me has been the understanding that the Universe is not that interested in punishing us. Every move we make is simply part of its reflection.
Alice Walker
#12. Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.
Jeanette
#13. Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Isaac Asimov
#14. The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.
Brad Dourif
#15. The beauty of our sky is really just a nice way for the earth to protect us from the terror of what's so vast and unknowable beyond. The boundlessness of the universe is disturbing when you think about it. It's too big and we're too small.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#16. The universe is not a rigid and immutable edifice where independent matter is housed in independent space and time; it is on the contrary an amorphous continuum, without any fixed architecture, plastic and variable, constantly subject to change and distortion.
Lincoln Barnett
#17. It is the Buddhist belief that at every moment the universe is not only dying but being reborn.
Frederick Lenz
#18. The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.
Walt Whitman
#19. The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.
Buzz Aldrin
#20. I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#21. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
#22. There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
Alan Watts
#23. Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.
Carlos Castaneda
#24. The universe is a mirror; however you look at it, it will look back to you exactly the same way. So extend your hand with love. The universe will hug you with a loving heart.
Debasish Mridha
#26. The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
C.S. Lewis
#27. People come and go from our lives all the time. It's not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making room for new people with new lessons.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#28. I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#29. Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.
Terry Pratchett
#31. The universe is a philosophical abyss.
Kedar Joshi
#32. The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.
Martin Rees
#33. The center of the universe is everywhere.
Black Elk
#34. Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills ... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
William O. Douglas
#35. The universe is just there and it's a mystery and there's no way our tiny brains can ever comprehend it.
A Loewenstein
#36. I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.
Adam Riess
#37. I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
Christopher Hitchens
#38. To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.
Dean Koontz
#39. You need not to find somebody with matching wavelengths, the Universe is there to conspire that to happen.
Shreya Gupta
#40. Alexander of Whitby taught that the universe is like a tapestry only parts of which are visible to us at a time. After we are dead, we will see the whole and then it will be clear to us how the different parts relate to each other.
Susanna Clarke
#41. The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.
Camryn Manheim
#42. The universe is not more beautiful than your pure thoughts-enlighten the world around you, the rest is complementary...
Vedang Sati
#43. If you keep finding yourself in the same situations, the Universe is prompting you to confront self! YOU are the common denominator.
Sanjo Jendayi
#44. Nothing in the universe is impermeable to the flow of love.
Victor Shamas
#45. Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.
Frederick Lenz
#46. And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.
Roger Ebert
#47. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#48. The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.
Frank Rich
#49. The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are.
Esther Hicks
#50. But something I have learned is that sometimes, the universe is full of heavy things that drop on top of your life and stay put forever. Love is one of them. Pain is another. Sometimes they're the same thing.
Fred Venturini
#51. You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.
Wumen Huikai
#52. The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
Carl Sagan
#53. The universe is a brightly colored blur of fast-moving shapes augmented by deafening noises.
Charles Stross
#54. Every atom, every minuscule part of the universe is nothing other than movement and change.
Steve Hagen
#56. The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#58. For the poetry of a text is largely produced by the fact that the wild chaos of the universe is therein, at one and the same time, expressed and controlled by a rhythm. In Candide both characteristics exist.
Voltaire
#59. When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.
Heather O'Neill
#60. Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.
Owen Gingerich
#61. I guess I have some kind of faith. I believe the universe is vast and that there are many things I don't understand.
Annie Bellet
#62. They had come to realize that the concept of matter is an illusion, for they now recognized that everything in the Universe is made out of energy. Quantum
Bruce H. Lipton
#63. Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#64. If the universe is infinite, as I believe, then it must surely contain an infinite number of possibilities that we have not yet imagined or attempted to harness ...
S.J. Parris
#65. Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
#66. Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. The Kabbalists say that the holy one of the universe is broken, and that we are extensions of the holy one and carry that brokenness inside of us. Our task is to fix our brokenness and hence the brokenness of the holy one.
Rebecca Pidgeon
#69. The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only the only power that outlasts death. Death is the power of separativity; it separates us.
Frederick Lenz
#70. If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.
George Coyne
#71. We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.
Max Black
#72. The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time ... The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.
Thomas Berry
#74. The universe is really playing hard game with me.
Nina Ardianti
#75. Pandeism: This is the belief that God created the universe, is now one with it, and so, is no longer a separate conscious entity. This is a combination of pantheism (God is identical to the universe) and deism (God created the universe and then withdrew Himself).
Alan Dawe
#76. The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.
Vartan Gregorian
#77. The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories.
Muriel Rukeyser
#78. The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing
it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's
going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will
just stop. You could do it all day.
Bob Doyle
#81. How many feelings can one heart hold?... Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.
Kelly Barnhill
#83. There really is no devil. There is only God. Everything that makes up the universe is God.
Aaron B. Powell
#84. The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
Marcus Aurelius
#85. Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.
Jerry Holkins
#87. If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.
Laozi
#88. The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#89. [The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.
Hugh Ross
#90. The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.
Stephen Hawking
#91. If we aren't living our lives doing what we are meant to be doing, and what we were essentially created to bring to the planet, the universe is going to let us know. Nothing will be working in our favor, nothing will ever seem to go right, and we will exist in a miserable robotic lifestyle.
J. Goldenberg
#92. The universe is a unity. Every material thing is in all things.
All things come from all, and all is in all things.
John Toland
#97. You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.
Rhonda Byrne
#98. The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
Peter Tork
#99. My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.
Brian Greene
#100. There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.
But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
