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Quotes About Stars

They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.
~ Thomas Hardy
The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
~ Thomas Hardy
and to his eyes, casually glancing upward, the silver and black-stemmed birches, with their characteristic tufts, the pale grey boughs of beech, the dark-creviced elm all appeared now as black and flat outlines upon the sky, wherein the white stars twinkled so vehemently that their flickering seemed like the flapping of wings.
~ Thomas Hardy
The cow and horse tracks in the road were full of water, the rain having been enough to charge them, but not enough to wash them away. Across these minute pools the reflected stars flitted in a quick transit as she passed; she would not have known they were shining overhead if she had not seen them there—the vastest things of the universe imaged in objects so mean.
~ Thomas Hardy
To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. The sensation may be caused by the panoramic glide of the stars past earthly objects, which is perceptible in a few minutes of stillness, or by the better outlook upon space that a hill affords, or by the wind, or by the solitude; but whatever be its origin, the impression of riding along is vivid and abiding.
~ Thomas Hardy
And strange-eyed constellations reign His stars eternally.
~ Thomas Hardy
They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.
~ Thomas Hardy
Se recostó contra las colmenas, y levantando al cielo la cara, hizo algunas observaciones a propósito de las estrellas, cuyas frías pulsaciones palpitaban en las negras oquedades de allá arriba, llenas de serena indiferencia respecto a aquellas dos briznas de humanidad.
~ Thomas Hardy
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.
~ Thomas Harris
What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699
~ Thomas Pynchon
The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The grandeur of space, dig it. Zillions of stars, each one gets its own pixel." "Awesome." "Maybe, but it's code's all it is.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Outside the sky is light with stars
~ Katherine Mansfield
When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they had long beams like wings...
~ Katherine Mansfield
Oh, waters - do not cover me! I would look long and long at those beautiful stars! Oh my wings - lift me - lift me I am not so dreadfully hurt...
~ Katherine Mansfield
My love, my sweet love, I live in another world. A kinder and simpler world. A world of moons and stars and forests, a world filled with danger and magical beauty. It's the old world but to me it's new. You must not be fearful, dear, I quite like it there.
~ Katherine Mansfield
You're not making too much of this. You will love her until the stars fall.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
You're not making too much of this. You will love her until the stars fall. She looked like a figure in a hand-tinted woodcut illustrating a medieval manuscript. Her hair should have been bound in gold cord, her arms full of lilies and myrtle, and he should have been her vassal, her knight.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.
~ Kathleen McGowan
The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One
~ Kathleen McGowan
You mean," Sylvia interrupted, "something that floats around aimlessly? With no mind? No purpose?" "Well. Yeah." "Wow," she said in true awe. "The stars could be filled with government employees." Dusty
~ Kathleen O'Neal Gear
A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.
~ Kathryn Davis
Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy light. Fold your wings, go to sleep, Rest your gizzards, Safe you'll be for the day. Glaux is nigh. Far away is first black, But it shall seep back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Stars are so much more brilliant when they are allowed to shine.
~ Kathryn Smith