Famous quotes containing the words universe and/or smaller:
“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden.... Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.”
—Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917)
“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)