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Quotes About Stars

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.
~ Frederick Lenz
And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
~ Jack Kerouac
The first time I'd ever felt happy-and I mean ever-was when I'd been lying in my bed, staring out my window, watching the stars shine harmoniosly with one another.
~ Jessica Sorensen
A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night.
~ Joe Hill
we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
~ Galileo Galilei
Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.
~ James Joyce
Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.
~ Augusten Burroughs
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Giuliani had christened it the Giordano Bruno, after a Florentine priest burned at the stake in 1600 for suggesting that the stars were like Sol, and might be orbited by other planets where life could exist.
~ Mary Doria Russell
the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own
~ Mary Oliver
All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars, and the shining, mysterious pond water itself.
~ Mary Oliver
When I woke the morning light was just slipping in front of the stars and I was covered with blossoms.
~ Mary Oliver
All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars and the shining mysterious pond water itself... May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream.
~ Mary Oliver
And then the stars stepped forth and help up their appointed fires- that hot, hard watchman of the night.
~ Mary Oliver
And we might, in our lives, have many thresholds, many houses to walk out from and view the stars, or to turn and go back to for warmth and company. But the real one–the actual house not of beams and nails but of existence itself–is all of earth, with no door, no address separate from oceans or stars, or from pleasure or wretchedness either, or hope, or weakness, or greed.
~ Mary Oliver
When I wake, and you are already wiping the stars away
~ Mary Oliver
And there was the passion which he invested in the poems. The metaphysical curiosity! The oracular tenderness with which he viewed the world - its roughness, its differences, the stars, the spider - nothing was outside the range of his interest.
~ Mary Oliver
STALLION BY STARLIGHT
~ Mary Pope Osborne
because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.
~ Mary Shelley
the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning
~ Mary Shelley
and behind the stone the faint drifting of the stars that is not movement, but the heavens breathing. Still
~ Mary Stewart