Quotes about stars
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“Stars aren’t supposed to cry. They’re supposed to laugh. (Zarek)
How can I laugh when I have no heart? (Astrid)
You have a heart. (He placed her hand over his.) One that only beats for you, princess. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Heart, Princess, Cry

“The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Love, Happiness, People, Time

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

The Expanding Universe (1963)
Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Life, Books, Universe

“At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

Sun

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Sun, Sea

“But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson book Nature

Source: Nature

World

“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”

Clifford D. Simak book Way Station

Source: Way Station

Death, Universe, Distant

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”

Stephen King book The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

Shoe, Dance

“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Imagination, Tree

“I have walked a stair of swords,
I have worn a coat of scars.
I have vowed with hollow words,
I have lied my way to the stars
-Songs of Sapphique”

Catherine Fisher book Incarceron

Source: Incarceron

Way

“After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”

Timothy Zahn Heir to the Empire

Source: Heir to the Empire

“The Destiny of Earthseed
Is to take root among the stars.”

Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 7 (p. 84)

“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Soul, Night

“It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Source: Lyrics: 1962-2001

Life, Hell

“For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?”

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director

Disease, Thinking

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Sinclair Lewis book Elmer Gantry

Source: Elmer Gantry (1927)

Boy, Light, Universe, Personality

“Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!”

Joanne Harris (1964) British author

Death, Birthday, Time

“How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Thinking

“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva”

Josh Groban (1981) American musician and actor

VH1.com, 11/23/03
Context: "The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big in the shower, so I break into some "Nessun Dorma" [from Puccini's Turandot] or Pearl Jam. You've got to go big when you're in the shower. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva."

Singing

“When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

Sadness

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 1: Puget Sound and British Columbia 1910s

Beauty, Universe, Appearance, Singing

“there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Sun

“She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Kill the Dead

“But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: God-Shaped Hole

Love, Strong

“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Source: Dr. Faustus

Time

“… hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful.
I bought it.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

God

“Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.”

Greg Bear book Hull Zero Three

Source: Hull Zero Three

Children, Truth, World

“No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening — still all is Beauty!”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

26 June 1875, page 208
John of the Mountains, 1938

God, Beauty, Mountain, Water

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Men, Reality, Future

“How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Men, War

“Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passionthe woods.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Beauty, Passion, Future

“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

Hate, School

“The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.”

Charles Simic (1938) American poet

Distant, Reading

“Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times…
If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

God, Spring, Nature, Time

“because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.”

Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

Life, Lie, Falseness

“She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

Source: Fall of Kings

World, Heart

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Love, Beauty, Distant

“The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Light

“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

World, Dead

“Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die?”

Nick Land (1962) British philosopher

Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 5: "Dead God", p. 60 (original emphasis)
Context: God is nowhere to be found, yet there is still so much light! Light that dazzles and maddens; crisp, ruthless light. Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die? Or the moon retain such fidelity to the Earth? Where is the new darkness? The greatest of all unknowings? Is death itself shy of us?

Sun

“He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him.
It was very sad, really.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Lie, Sadness

“I love the stars.
Because they can't say anything.
I love the stars.
Because they do not judge anyone.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Love

“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”

Donna Jo Napoli (1948) American children's writer and linguist

Source: Sirena

Pain, Feeling, Heart

“Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.”

Isaac Asimov book Pebble in the Sky

Source: Pebble in the Sky

World

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”

Margaret Wise Brown Goodnight Moon

Source: Goodnight Moon

Good Night

“I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”

Siri Hustvedt book The Summer Without Men

Source: The Summer Without Men

Sea

“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

Distant, Night

“Gather out of star-dust,
Earth-dust,
Cloud-dust,
Storm-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust,
Not for sale.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Dreams

“Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Tear

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker around me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Life, People, Forgetting

“Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

People

“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”

Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time

Source: A Wrinkle in Time

Travel, Light

“Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Light, Cry

“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Universe

“We didn’t know what was ahead of us then. We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Variant: We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Flowers, Night

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”

William Carlos Williams book Al Que Quiere!

"El Hombre"
Al Que Quiere! (1917)

Courage, Parting

“The stars fell
one by one into his eyes and burnt.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

“The rules of reason build towers that reach past the treetops. The rules of trust build towers that reach past the stars.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

Past

“So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Universe

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Sun

“… and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Night

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

"Bright Star" (1819)
Context: Bright star! would I were stedfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores.

Art, Nature, Night

“I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5 General sources Source: The Poetry of Robert Frost Context: p>Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went — Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament.But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn't been.</p

“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Light, Heart Touching

“Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

World

“The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Night

“We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

53 min 54 sec
Source: We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to selfawareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Context: And we who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos we've begun, at last, to wonder about our origins. Star stuff, contemplating the stars organized collections of 10 billion-billion-billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps, throughout the cosmos.

“The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Soul, Universe

“Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”

Maya Angelou book Mom & Me & Mom

Source: Mom & Me & Mom

Love, Strong

“It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“… women, brave as stars at dawn”

Edwidge Danticat book Breath, Eyes, Memory

Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory

Women

“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

Truth

“Lying here and looking up at the stars like this, it makes me feel like I’m lying on a planet. It’s so wide. So infinite
-Belly Conklin”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Feeling, Lying

“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Quoted in the chapter on Bowie http://books.google.com/books?id=iHXT8olyMAsC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=instant+star in Valentines & Vitriol (1978) by Rex Reed Variant: I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Water

“Kids don’t know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren’t star chasers and they don’t suck up. It’s why I like them.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books