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

“Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake…”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“I love you, what star do you live on?”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

“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

“Rats live on no evil star”

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

“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

“It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.”

Marguerite Yourcenar book Memoirs of Hadrian

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist