Quotes about space

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Source: Sandman Slim

Source: Beyond the Grave

As quoted in Visions : How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century (1999) by Michio Kaku, p. 295
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

Carr, Act I
Source: Travesties (1974)

Source: The Duke and I

Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling

Source: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Brida

Source: Zen and Japanese Culture

Source: Madame Bovary

Jude the Obscure

Source: White Oleander

Source: Crown Duel (Crown & Court #1 - 2, 1997)

Source: The Name of the Wind

Getting Even (1971), My Philosophy

Aleph (2011)

Source: Wuthering Heights

Source: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Context: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

"The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/addams6.htm; this piece by Jane Addams was first published in 1892 and later appeared as chapter six of Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
Context: These young people accomplish little toward the solution of this social problem, and bear the brunt of being cultivated into unnourished, oversensitive lives. They have been shut off from the common labor by which they live which is a great source of moral and physical health. They feel a fatal want of harmony between their theory and their lives, a lack of coördination between thought and action. I think it is hard for us to realize how seriously many of them are taking to the notion of human brotherhood, how eagerly they long to give tangible expression to the democratic ideal. These young men and women, longing to socialize their democracy, are animated by certain hopes which may be thus loosely formulated; that if in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave; that it is difficult to see how the notion of a higher civic life can be fostered save through common intercourse; that the blessings which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent; that the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Source: Paint it Black

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Time Must Have a Stop (1944)

Source: Eleven Minutes

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Source: Shantaram

Source: Reflections on Gender and Science

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: The Magicians

Source: House of Incest

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

Source: Acheron

Source: War and Peace

Source: The Power of Myth (book), p. 28
Context: Now, what is a myth? The dictionary definition of a myth would be stories about gods. So then you have to ask the next question: What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universe - the powers if your own body and of nature.

Source: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Source: Lover at Last

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: Lilith A and Lilith, 1896: A Duplex

Source: Blackwood Farm (2002)
Context: "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Source: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

Source: Max

Source: Magic Strikes

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Source: Scar Tissue

Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal (April 1952); also in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999) edited by Linda Lear, p. 94
Context: Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself, in his cities of steel and concrete, from the realities of earth and water and the growing seed. Intoxicated with a sense of his own power, he seems to be going farther and farther into more experiments for the destruction of himself and his world.
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Source: Austenland

Pearls of Wisdom
Variant: Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Dresden Files, Ghost Story (2011), Chapter 9

A Man Said to the Universe, No. 20
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)
Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

Nobel acceptance speech (1986)

Source: Cosmos

Source: Magic Burns

Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Variant: No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.
Source: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9

"On My Friendly Critics"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Source: Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies

Source: Every Day

Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.

Source: Revolution

Source: In the Woods

1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Context: I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

Source: Breathless

Source: Dune

Source: Lock and Key

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

Source: How to Be Alone

Source: Lock and Key

Source: Angels & Demons

Source: Magonia

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Attributed to Emerson in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56, no prior occurrence of this a statement has been located; it seems to be derived from one which occurs in The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho, p. 22: When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Misattributed

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom