“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.”

— Ishmael Beah, book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky (1949), p. 210

“The sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I

“No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Night (1960)

“The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

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“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

On Death and Dying (1969)

“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

“It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
like that, I wish I could write music”

Henning Mankell book Italian Shoes

Source: Italian Shoes

“He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.”

Cornelia Funke Reckless

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“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

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“Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.”

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