Quotes about sky
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“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Fate's Edge

“It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Screaming Staircase

Source: The Screaming Staircase

“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.”

Monique Duval (1924–2014) Canadian journalist

Bird, Dance

“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, Star

“Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.”

Dave Eggers book What Is the What

Source: What Is the What

Parting

“It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Sun, Night

“What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Asleep

Source: Asleep

Time

“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Life, Wedding

“You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Happiness, Tree, Sun

“My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802)
The last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.
Context: My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

Heart

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

Mary Downing Hahn (1937) American children's writer

Source: Daphne's Book

Life, Change, Sun

“in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Night

“We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.”

Gavin Pretor-Pinney (1950) British writer

Source: The Cloudspotter's Guide

Life, Thinking, Fight

“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.”

Ishmael Beah book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Pain, Suffering, Joy

“The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Books, Home

“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”

Charles Simic (1938) American poet

Source: The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

“The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.”

“No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Love, World, Beauty, Dreams

“Drunk with beauty, I tore down
Armfuls of blossoms.
How desolate the marred sky!”

Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist

Source: The Naming

Beauty

“Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.”

Julio Cortázar book Hopscotch

Source: Hopscotch

Imagination, Sleep, Universe, Change

“Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

Change, Reading

“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

Star, Flowers, Night

“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Lunar Park

Source: Lunar Park

Way

“… 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

Star

“If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae."”

Philip Plait book Bad Astronomy

Source: Bad Astronomy (2002), p. 47
Source: Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"

“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Age, Childhood, Painting

“Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

God, Speed

“Each snowflake was a sigh heard by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Women, People, World, Suffering

“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

Star, Night

“Even when we're apart, we'll be looking at the same sky!”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

“What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.
Its roots must hold the sky.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

Tree

“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, Star

“So how come it looks so beautiful?
How come the moon falls from the sky?”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

Source: The Eraser

Beauty

“She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

World, Personality

“The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by”

Susanna Clarke (1959) British author

Source: Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell. Tom 3

Painting

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”

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

Though attributed to Emerson in Edwards' A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 37, this quote originates in Politics for the People (1848) by Charles Kingsley.
Misattributed

God, Beauty, Flowers

“His steady gaze held hers. His blue eyes were very dark, uniquely so. She had known people before with blue eyes, but they had always been light blue. Will's were the color of the sky just on the edge of night.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

People, Color, Light, Night

“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams

Life, Pleasure, Star, Time

“What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship.”

Roberto Cotroneo (1961) Italian journalist and writer

Sleep, Summer, Night

“It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep… a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Angels, Soul, Mountain, Star

“He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.”

Cornelia Funke Reckless

Source: Reckless

Love, Soul, Water, Night

“i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".
XAIPE (1950)

God, Dreams, Nature, Tree

“It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Thinking

“For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Time

“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Snow Country

Source: Snow Country

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Source: The Magnetic Fields

Love, Color, Change, Dead

“Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with”

Francesca Lia Block Missing Angel Juan

Source: Missing Angel Juan

Winter, Sun

“Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance—
they bear the weight of sky and cloud
upon the fountain of their veins.”

Kathleen Raine (1908–2003) poet, critic, translator

Peace, Tree, Dance

“Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo?”

Shannon Hale Forest Born

Source: Forest Born

“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings
― Sue Monk Kidd”

Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist

Source: The Invention of Wings

God, Change

“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, Star, Light, Night

“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it's true
That who is what and what is who."
- Winnie-the-Pooh”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Way

“Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Chance, Country

“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

God, Fear, Mountain

“You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky,
or the ocean and you move the hell on.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Beauty, Hell

“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, Star, Night

“Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25”

Edwidge Danticat (1969) Novelist, short story writer, memoirist

Life, People, Strong, Parting

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Life, Dreams

“Summer came.
For the books thief, everything was going nicely.
For me, the sky was the color of Jews.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Books, Color, Summer

“I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Source: Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Perfection, Sea

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Color, Cats, Summer

“His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Beauty, Color, Perfection

“I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Feeling

“Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Death

“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

Star

“People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: Just One Wish

People, Soul, Night

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Source: Geek Love

Time, Parting, Flying

“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

Star, Tear, Water, Heart

“If you give me wings
I will soar for you

Even if this whole land
Sinks down to the water

If you give me a sword
I will fight for you

Even if this whole sky
Shoots through with your light”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Light, Water, Fight

“The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.”

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

Source: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz & Other Stories

Mountain

“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

Men, Happiness, Feeling

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

--, suspected false quotation”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Painting, Falseness

“His blue eyes were very dark… Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night…”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Night

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”

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

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

Change, Time

“If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 23: Predicament

“The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Color, Question

“A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Flying

“Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like… I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

Cars, Feeling, Solitude

“If I were rain,
That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,
Could I join two hearts as well?”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

Heart

“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

Star

“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”

Carson McCullers book The Member of the Wedding

Source: The Member of the Wedding

World, Light

“And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

Soul

“… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger.
The sky was dripping.
Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

World

“And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.
From an empty sky.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Reunion

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

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Men, Star, Night

“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Initiation / The Captive Part I

Sea

“Will you remember that? Anywhere you are, if you can look up and find Perseus in the sky, find that smile, and hear the galactic wind whisper your name, you'll know that it's me, calling for you… calling you back to Lazarevo. (Alexander)”

Paullina Simons book Tatiana and Alexander

Source: Tatiana and Alexander

Smile

“The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.”

Shan Sa book Empress

Source: Empress

World, Solitude

“My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

Source: Dead Over Heels

“Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.”

China Miéville book Looking for Jake

Source: Looking for Jake and Other Stories

Sun

“The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Night

“I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: A Killing Frost

Mountain, Personality

“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

Star

“We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

“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, Star

“Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.”

Jeanne DuPrau The City of Ember

Source: The City of Ember

Beauty, Way

“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”

Roberto Bolaño book 2666

Source: 2666

Flowers

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