Quotes About Stars

Indeed, with iAm out of the picture, she was prepared to be celibate. Who else would she want, anyway? She had met her match—it was even decreed in the stars. That he didn't want her? Well, one's fate was not another's, no matter the emotions involved—

Había estrellas fugaces. Las luces en Comala se apagaron. Entonces el cielo se adueñó de la noche.

Salió fuera y miró el cielo. Llovían estrellas. Lamentó aquello porque hubiera querido ver un cielo quieto. Oyó el canto de los gallos. Sintió la envoltura de la noche cubriendo la tierra. La tierra, "este valle de lágrimas".

When she tipped her head and looked upward at the glowing dark blue dome pricked with its millions of lights, bigger and brighter than stars had ever been, she felt the mountains breathe in her face their ancient, frightening cold.

The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment

These are the ashes of fiery weather, Of nights full of the green stars from Ireland, Wet out of the sea, and luminously wet, Like beautiful and abandonded refugees.

If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the rooms and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor, Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

Tuesday night. A delicate, blue night-most gorgeous, golden stars & the air as fresh and as pure as the air of the moon. I have a great affection for moonlight nights somehow & could cry "moon, moon, moon" as fast as the world calls "thief" after a villain. What a treasure house of silver and gold they are—& how lovely the planets look in the heavens—Bah—mere words.

Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.

The stars refuse to come closer the way they have other nights. He squints harder. They just shimmer and float farther away.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Stelle Dich an den Abrgund der Hölle Und tanze zur Musik der Sterne!

Ich erblickte das Alphabet der Sterne. Ein Firmament voller funkelnder Zeichen, eine unlesbare, aber wundervolle Schrift aus Licht, so alt wie das Universum.

Etwas Einmaliges, etwas Unvergängliches formte sich in meinem Kopf. Ein kunstvolles Gebilde aus Worten und Sätzen, das sich wie eine außerirdische Kreatur von fremdartiger Schönheit in meinem Denken materialisierte - und zu mir sprach, in makellosen Versen! Es was ein Gedicht. Es hatte nicht das Geringste mit meinem eigenen Denken zu tun, es waren Gedanken aus dem All! Ein Geschenk der Sterne!

Von den Sternen kommen wir, zu den Sternen gehen wir. Das Leben ist nur eine Reise in die Fremde.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

And when he [the author of the universe] had compounded the whole, he divided it up into as many souls as there are stars, and allotted each soul to a star. And mounting them on their stars, as if on chariots, he showed them the nature of the universe and told them the laws of their destiny. - "Timaeus" by Plato 427-347 B.C.

If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.

The universe resonates to certain musical vibrations. All the stars and planets revolve in harmony with it.

Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.

Thought is like the universe, few see the stars.

There's a reason for everything, if it weren't for the stars, there would be no universe.

I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.