Quotes about stars
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“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

“They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.”

Philip Plait (1964) astronomer, skeptic

Source: Death from the Skies! (2008), p. 75-76
Source: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...

Life, Feeling, Time

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.”

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

Source: The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Love, Heart, Sea, Wise

“For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you…”

Sharon Shinn book Archangel

Source: Archangel

World

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210722191755/https://libquotes.com/stephen-king/quote/lbj3k9y Archived] from [https://libquotes.com/stephen-king/quote/lbj3k9y the original

Love, Thinking, Heart

“I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn’t take much notice of anything… other than how heavy… and awkward the bottle had become.”

Oliver Jeffers (1977) British writer and illustrator

Source: The Heart and the Bottle

Truth, World, Sea

“When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience

St. 5
1790s, The Tyger (1794)
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Smile, Tear

“The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far… The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.”

Fynn (1919–1999) British writer

Source: Mister God, This is Anna

Soul, Light, Time, Sun

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”

Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet

"Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)

Life

“Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Sun

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Collected Poems

Death, Light, Night

“Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

People

“If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130.

Light

“I never knew there were this many stars."

"I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you."

"That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him.

"It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain."

"I see.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”

Dean Koontz book False Memory

Source: False Memory

Love, Light, Evil, Singing

“I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.”

Tanith Lee Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Source: Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

Drawing

“Star people are rare.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

People

“Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said, constantly in the darkness,
Where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

Love

“When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.”

Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) Indian novelist and journalist

Source: Delhi

World, Night

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Youth, Dreams, Feeling

“We're going' Anne said firmly.
So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.'
Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.”

Philippa Gregory book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

Night

“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury

Box

“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Love, Kiss

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

God, Learning

“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”

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

Quote in a letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, c. Saturday, 29 September 1888; as cited in An Examined Faith : Social Context and Religious Commitment (1991) by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259
1880s, 1888

Religion, Painting

“They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

History, Kiss, Memory

“Come away with me, Astrid. (Zarek)
Why should I? (Astrid)
Because I love you, and even if I’m lying on the sun itself I’ll be freezing there without you. I need my star so that I can hear laughter. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Love, Lying, Laughter, Sun

“On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Imagination, Night

“And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Dreams, Flowers

“That ones yours, huh?"he asked, pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'? Doesnt he have a last name?"
"Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said, heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking

“I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Fish, Water

“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

“They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Way

“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.”

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

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857

Tear, Water, Heart, Sea

“Keep this and perhaps remember me."
Kieran's hands tightened on the arrowhead, his knuckles whitening. "The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Forgetting

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

God, Light

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856–1923) American writer

Life, World, Beauty, Sister

“This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

World, Music, Flowers, Kiss

“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“The stars are filming us for no one.”

Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

“They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

" And Death Shall Have No Dominion http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=277", st. 1 (1943) <br class="br">Source: Collected Poems

Love, Death, Lovers, Sea

“I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Soul, Personality

“I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.”

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

Source: History

Heart, Christ

“… we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Collected Poems

Death, Imagination, Madness

“Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.”

Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 9 : The Scroll Marked II, p. 59.
Context: Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness because it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness because it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards because they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles because they are my challenge.
I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Love, Way, Light, Sun

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”

Lois Lowry book Number the Stars

Source: Number the Stars

Dreams, Sleep, Night

“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden (1854), p.375

Sun, Good Morning

“Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.”

Gregory Maguire book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Shoe, Sister

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

World, Sex

“Bright star,” Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. “Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Forgetting

“Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you."
Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: You Are Special

“He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Love, People

“Rats live on no evil star”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Evil

“And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Heart, Parting

“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

People, Travel, Light

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) French lawyer, politician and writer

Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

Happiness

“That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: Just One Wish

Horse

“Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.”

Josh Groban (1981) American musician and actor

Smile, Distant, Flying

“All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Men, Night

“For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Universe

“We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire…”

Cordwainer Smith book The Rediscovery of Man

Source: The Rediscovery of Man

World

“Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Love, Angels, Christmas, Christmas

“You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Miserables

“The birds of night peck at the first stars
that flash like my soul when I love you.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Love, Soul, Bird, Night

“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Every man and every woman is a star.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

I:3.
Source: The Book of the Law (1904)

“You’ll come back
To me…
It’s written in the stars, you see,
you’ll come back.
You’ll come back,
it’s a fact
that I am strong because I do
believe in you.”

Umberto Eco book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Source: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Strong

“There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Tear, Light

“Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Thinking, Light

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

Light

“On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.”

Neal Shusterman book Everwild

Source: Everwild

“… know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois

Faith, Appearance, Sun, Night

“For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

St. 25. <br class="br"> Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth, Age