“She stood lost in eternity… watching the immense sky…”

— Angela Carter , The Magic Toyshop

Source: The Magic Toyshop

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English novelist 1940–1992

Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I… I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would… WHAT?”

James Patterson book The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Source: The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

“The young girl stood beside me. I
Saw not what her young eyes could see:
—A light, she said, not of the sky
Lives somewhere in the Orange Tree.”

Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) Early twentieth century Australian poet

Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), "The Orange Tree"

“The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.”

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

I 1
De immenso (1591)

“She watched the indigo sky, and the stars coming out tranquil as ever, as if this were any ordinary evening. Only humans knew what an evil time this was.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 5, Chapter 8 (p. 247)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”

Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps

Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There's a hole in the sky
I stood and stared
I feel it inside what isn't there”

Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author

"Hole in the Sky"
Made in China (2005)
Context: There's a hole in the sky
I stood and stared
I feel it inside what isn't there
The children are lost we can't find them anywhere Hole in the sky
I'm crying still crying for you.

“He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 3

“The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.”

Shan Sa book Empress

Source: Empress

“Ye keep your watch in the eternal day.”
Voi vigilate ne l'etterno die.

Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio

Canto XXX, line 103 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio

“She stood lost in eternity… watching the immense sky…”

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