Quotes about stars

A collection of quotes on the topic of star, likeness, use, world.

Best quotes about stars

„There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.“

— Jack Kerouac American writer 1922 - 1969

Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll

„Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.“

— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

Variant: Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.
Source: The Greatest American President: The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

„When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Illusions

Widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the internet; however, a presumably definitive source of Emerson's works at http://www.rwe.org fails to confirm any occurrence of this phrase across his works. This phrase is found in remarks attributed to Charles A. Beard in Arthur H. Secord, "Condensed History Lesson", Readers' Digest, February 1941, p. 20; but the origin has not been determined. Possibly confused with a passage in "Illusions" in which Emerson discusses his experience in the "Star Chamber": "our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure. Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, “The stars are in the quiet sky,” &c., and I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture. Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead, reflecting the light of a half–hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect."
Misattributed

„The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.“

— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Cassius, Act I, scene ii.
Variant: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Source: Julius Caesar

„It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.“

— William Shakespeare English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616

„Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.“

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

„If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.“

— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

„We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.“

— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act III
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

„He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.“

— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

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„Reading is the greatest thing ever, I've read alot that I know what very few people know… That the stars in the night sky are suns and that there are earth-like planets orbiting those stars, meaning there are other planets like earth out there… Reading is great“

— Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996

People, Night, Reading, Sun

„Dreams are like stars; you may never touch them, but if you follow them, they will lead you to your destiny.“

— Liam Payne English singer and songwriter 1993

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422617.Liam_Payne

Dreams

„The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.“

— Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945

Die Nacht ist meine beste Freundin. Sie glättet den Sturm in der Seele und lässt die weisenden Sterne aufgehen.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

Soul, Night

„Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."
Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.“

— Rick Riordan, book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Beauty, Tear, Night

„I can’t win. Love is Russian roulette for me. No one loves the real me inside. they're all in love with my fame, my stardom.
I fall in love far too quickly and end up getting hurt all the time. I've got scars all over. But I can't help myself because basically I'm a softie I have this hard, macho shell — which I project on stage but there's a much softer side. too, which melts like butter.“

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991

"Rock On Freddie" (1985).

Love, Time, Help, Hurt

„At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.“

— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

Painting, Night, Forgetting

„Someday death will take us to another star.“

— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

Death

„It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land — born was the leader of man. All going down to see the Lord Jesus.“

— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991

"Jesus" on Queen (1973).

Men

„Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.“

— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

Variant: Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Context: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Hope

„One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.“

— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018

Variant: Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Love, Life, Success, Deep

„Tell the sun and stars hello for me.“

— Rick Riordan, book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Sun

„You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.“

— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977

Love, Fate

„Listen,
if stars are still lit it means there is someone who needs them.
It means someone wants to love,
Why then do we feel so much pain and heaviness of heart?
are we waiting for something, regretting anything?
To whom I can strech out my hand in the somber desert?
Who will accompany me on the empty night?
Who will give me a fiery day?
Who will bring back the sea that left?
No hope here. Torment is certain.
Without sacredness in the emptiness of this world of ours,
the heart of man fades like a flower.
Suddenly, the shuddering of the heavens penetrating my soul,
Oh never let the parting sun, no star is ever lost we once have seen, the long rains will continue to fall.“

— Alexis Karpouzos 1967

Source: Song THE HEART OF MAN

Soul, Pain, Waiting, Night

„The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"“

— Jack Kerouac, book On the Road

Part One, Ch. 1
On the Road (1957)
Context: They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

People, Time, Madness

„Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.“

— Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850

Religion, Learning, Distant, Patience

„Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.“

— Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849

Soul, Universe, Heart

„Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.“

— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Life, Beauty, Motivational, Beauty

„Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.“

— Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator 1934 - 1996

Sun, Sea

„Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the Creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing and then, it is the eternal dance of creation. The Creator and the creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing — until there is only … the dance.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

"The Dance" - from inlay sleeve of Dangerous (1991)

World, Lovers, Joy, Dance

„The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.“

— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

Heart

„Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek!“

— Rick Riordan, book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

„I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone… and they'll never see anything like it ever again… and they won't be able to forget me — ever.“

— Jim Morrison lead singer of The Doors 1943 - 1971

As quoted in Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip (2003), by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams p. 152

Forgetting

„If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.“

— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

„Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.“

— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Life, Imagination, Change

„Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.“

— Paracelsus Swiss physician and alchemist 1493 - 1541

„Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.“

— Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950

Love, Music, Silence, Parting

„We all shine on in the moon and the stars and the sun.“

— Ben Sherwood, book The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Sun

„Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.“

— Norman Vincent Peale American writer 1898 - 1993

„You are the sun, you make me shine, or more like the stars, that twinkle at night. You are the moon that glows in my heart. You're my daytime, my night-time, my world…you are my life.“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

You Are My Life
Invincible (2001)

Life, World, Time, Sun

„It is time, love, to break off that sombre rose,
shut up the stars and bury the ash in the earth;
and, in the rising of the light, wake with those who awoke
or go on in the dream, reaching the other shore of the sea which has no other shore.“

— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973

Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría,
cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la tierra:
y, en la insurrección de la luz, despertar con los que despertaron
o seguir en el sueño alcanzando la otra orilla del mar que no tiene otra orilla.
La Barcarola Termina (The Watersong Ends) (1967), trans. Anthony Kerrigan in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0-395-54418-1] (p. 500).

Love, Dreams, Light, Time

„Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.“

— Gene Roddenberry American television screenwriter and producer 1921 - 1991

Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five", "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry", 0:26:09)
Context: Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.

„I'm looking for the face i had before the world was made. I was the primordial flaring forth, the gravitational waves, the whirling galaxies, and the exploding supernovas that would become stars and planets. I was the steaming planet Earth, the bacteria awash in the sea, and the early eukaryotes and multicellular animals. I exploded in the Cambrian explosion, stumbled onto land, walked with dinosaurs, saw trees and flowers appear, walked upright in Africa, and walked on the moon. I felt the embrace of gravity. I was one with all that had been and all that was to be. I experienced subjective mystical communion with the evolutionary, emergent universe. I was the universe. We know not where the journey leads, nor whether a final destination is even a meaningful concept. The attraction is the inherent thrill of participating in a grand creative endeavor for which participation is its own reward“

— Alexis Karpouzos 1967

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14108295.alexis_karpouzos

Tree, Animals, Flowers, Universe

„We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.“

— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018

Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)

Understanding, Universe

„If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.“

— Rabindranath Tagore Bengali polymath 1861 - 1941

Life, Tear, Sun, Cry

„Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.“

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Part I, section 3.
Source: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

Love, Angels, Forgetting

„Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.“

— Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885

Part 2, Book 1, Ch. 2
Variant translation: What makes night within us may leave stars.
Source: Ninety-Three (1874)
Context: Cimourdain was a pure-minded but gloomy man. He had "the absolute" within him. He had been a priest, which is a solemn thing. Man may have, like the sky, a dark and impenetrable serenity; that something should have caused night to fall in his soul is all that is required. Priesthood had been the cause of night within Cimourdain. Once a priest, always a priest.
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

Truth, Soul, Night

„A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.“

— Elias Canetti Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer 1905 - 1994

„I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.“

— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

Dreams

„Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.“

— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890

Life

„I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.“

— Raymond Chandler, book The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

„If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and out spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.

Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder.. But mostly it didn't, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn't tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they'd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.

The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn't fall. She spent the rest of her time holding onto whatever scraps she had left.“

— Jodi Picoult Author 1966

Stupidity, World, Way, Tear

„I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.“

— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977

Source: Fire: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Imagination, Lovers

„I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.“

— Sojourner Truth African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist 1797 - 1883

Home

„I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.“

— Jack Kerouac, book On the Road

Part Two, Ch. 4
On the Road (1957)

Night

„I was the highest-priced and most important star in Hollywood, but I was "difficult."“

— Hedy Lamarr Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping 1914 - 2000

Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

„Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.“

— Gilbert Parker Canadian novelist and British politician 1862 - 1932

"The White Omen"

Love, Men

„His [ Van Gogh's] pathos is alien to me, especially in my current phase, but he is certainly a genius. Pathetic to the point of being pathological, this endangered man can endanger one who does not see through him. Here a brain is consumed by the fire of a star. It frees itself in its work just before the catastrophe. Deepest tragedy takes place here, real tragedy, natural tragedy, exemplary tragedy. Permit me to be terrified.“

— Paul Klee German Swiss painter 1879 - 1940

Quote (1908), # 816, in The Diaries of Paul Klee; University of California Press, 1964; as quoted by Francesco Mazzaferro, in 'The Diaries of Paul Klee - Part Three' : Klee as a Secessionist and a Neo-Impressionist Artist http://letteraturaartistica.blogspot.nl/2015/05/paul-klee-ev.html
1903 - 1910

Nature

„I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer. We’d make a good team. I don’t want to ask you any favors, but if you have time – and from what I saw, you have plenty – I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel. I’ve got notes and everything, but if you could just make it into a coherent whole or whatever? Or even just tell me what I should say differently. Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, “They’ll remember me now,” but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. (Okay, maybe I’m not such a shitty writer. But I can’t pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.) We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it’s silly and useless – epically useless in my current state – but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. People will say it’s sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it’s not sad, Van Houten. It’s triumphant. It’s heroic. Isn’t that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn’t actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn’t get smallpox. After my PET scan lit up, I snuck into the ICU and saw her while she was unconscious. I just walked in behind a nurse with a badge and I got to sit next to her for like ten minutes before I got caught. I really thought she was going to die, too. It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care. She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark almost blue color, and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. A nurse guy came in and told me I had to leave, that visitors weren’t allowed, and I asked if she was doing okay, and the guy said, “She’s still taking on water.”“

— John Green, book The Fault in Our Stars

A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

Love, Death, War, People

„To be a star is~to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.“

— Hedy Lamarr Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping 1914 - 2000

Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

People, World

„What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.“

— Christa McAuliffe American educator and astronaut 1948 - 1986

"Christa McAuliffe 1948-1986" in TIME magazine (10 February 1986) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960597,00.html

„That's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.“

— Irene Dunne American actress 1898 - 1990

A Visit With Irene Dunne (1977)

Women

„He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar,
The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star.
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do.“

— Taylor Swift American singer-songwriter 1989

Teardrops on My Guitar, written by Taylor Swift and Liz Rose.
Song lyrics, Taylor Swift (2006)

Cars, Singing

„"Film star," "movie star" — whatever they want to try to call you is limiting, in the sense that I think an actor has to be able to play characters. To separate these things — you know: "leading man," "action hero," "character actor," stuff like that — I guess if I want to be close to anything, it would be a character actor, which is what I think an actor should be. So any of that "movie star" stuff, I just don't buy it. It just doesn't make sense to me.“

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

Quoted in "'Johnny Depp - From Hell' special," http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/interviews/From%20Hell%20Special.htm ITV (January 2002)

Thinking, Sense

„Slowly the joy of flower and bird
Did like a tide withdraw;
And in the heaven a silent star
Smiled on me, infinitely far.“

— Francis William Bourdillon British poet 1852 - 1921

" The Chantry Of The Cherubim http://www.bartleby.com/236/219.html" in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917) by D. H. S. Nicholson.
Context: p>I walk as one unclothed of flesh,
I wash my spirit clean;
I see old miracles afresh,
And wonders yet unseen.
I will not leave Thee till Thou give
Some word whereby my soul may live!I listened — but no voice I heard;
I looked — no likeness saw;
Slowly the joy of flower and bird
Did like a tide withdraw;
And in the heaven a silent star
Smiled on me, infinitely far.</p

Smile, Flowers, Bird, Joy

„And before the stars were born.
The greatest gift you can offer anyone is their complete freedom.
Freedom to love, to laugh, to cry, to feel scared, angry, insecure, full of doubt or full of joy.
To hold them in that safe and sacred space.
You don't exist to make anyone else happy.
But you can be present.
Present to their unhappiness, their excitement.
Present to the life that moves in them.
And you can invite them to a deeper Happiness.
The Happiness of Being itself.
The Happiness that holds them exactly as they are.
The way you hold them now.
The way the ground holds the flowers, the trees, the great mountain ranges.
The way you were held as a little one.
And before the stars were born.“

— Джефф Фостер American basketball player 1977

Love, Life, Way, Feeling

„Be different than the world, otherwise, there are lots of stars in the sky.“

— Lucky Gupta Internet celebrity 1998

2020

World

„Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?“

— Henry Beston, book Northern Farm

Source: Northern Farm

Fear, Beauty, Light, Sea

„Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.“

— Harriet Tubman African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820 - 1913

World, Dreams, Passion, Change

„I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?“

— Kate DiCamillo, book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Love

„Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.“

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet

Love, Truth, Sun, love

„Love is the mystery of water and a star.“

— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973

Love, Water

„I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars…. I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness….“

— H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937

Death, World, Madness

„You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.“

— Max Ehrmann American writer, poet, and attorney 1872 - 1945

Variant: Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.

Life, Peace, Soul, Tree

„Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning… except its own.“

— Leonard Bernstein, book The Joy of Music

Source: The Joy of Music

Art, Music

„Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.“

— Neil deGrasse Tyson American astrophysicist and science communicator 1958

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

„I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.“

— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018

"Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking" by Roger Highfield in Daily Telegraph (16 October 2001).

Life, Thinking

„Women Are Not Roses

Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.

Though rivers flow
women are not
rivers.

Women are not
roses
they are not oceans
or stars.

i would like to tell
her this but
i think she
already knows.“

— Ana Castillo novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer 1953

Source: Women Are Not Roses

Women, Thinking

„The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this:“

— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

„But let me tell you this: sometimes at night, when I look up at the stars, an see the whole sky jus laid out there, don't you think I ain't rememberin it all. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been. An then, all of a sudden, I'm forty, fifty, sixty years ole, you know?
Well, so what? I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing-- an dreams is jus dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.
You know what I mean?“

— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

Life, Dreams, Thinking, Time

„Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street… Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.“

— Wassily Kandinsky Russian painter 1866 - 1944

Secret, Soul, Flowers, Dead

„Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.“

— James Cameron Canadian film director 1954

Sister

„The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.“

— Jerry Spinelli, book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Sense, Universe

„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“

— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variant: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Bird, Learning, Singing, Dance

„Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,
And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.“

— John Masefield English poet and writer 1878 - 1967

Sleep, Sun

„When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.“

— Charles A. Beard American historian 1874 - 1948

Misattributed
Variant: When its dark enough you can see the stars.

Hope

„This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.

We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some--perhaps many--may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:

This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe“

— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924

World, Hope, Music, Way

„Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…“

— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet

Variant: When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Source: Romeo and Juliet

Love, World, Night

„Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.“

— Dale Carnegie, book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Men