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Quotes About Cosmos

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
~ Tycho Brahe
So to say that you don't believe in the supernatural is a contradiction in terms - because it means that you also don't believe in the natural. Neither can exist without the other.' 'Oh come on', I said impatiently. 'That's just semantics'. 'Yes, you're right. But the whole world is made up of semantics and yours are those of the seventeenth century. Even though you think you are modern.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Strange that when we finally fly, the separation from the past seems easier to achieve. Height and distance from the earth seem to stabilize the spirit, to liberate it from its sorrow. We enter the consciousness of the cosmos.
~ Anais Nin
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again
~ Anais Nin
The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
~ Andre Breton
I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.
~ Andrew Carnegie
I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Look, you: there are enough stars for everyone tonight, and among them shine the satellites, those counterfeit coins.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The sun is slowly dying, the spiral arm spreading, the molecules drifting apart second by second towards our inevitable heat death- shouldn't we all wail to the stars?
~ Andrew Sean Greer
It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise right moment, you'd think it would never happen.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Everything passes away—suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
~ Andrew Solomon
My life seemed like a speck of dust in comparison to the universe.
~ Sam Torode
And the faces of them, which have used abstinence, shall shine above the stars; whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness.Bible2 Esdras,vii. 55.
~ Samuel Johnson
When I been small, once Driver told me cricket singing was the voice of stars.
~ Sandra Newman
And I'm going to pain the solar systems on the backs of her hands, so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.
~ Sarah Kay
IF THE GREAT ANDROMEDA GALAXY had to depend on you to hold it up, where would it be now but fallen way to hell?
~ Saul Bellow
shrunken passages of his body. And then the body, too – ah, God! – wastes away; and leaves its bones, and even the bones at last wear away and crumble to dust in that shallow place of deposit. And thus humanized, this planet in its galaxy of stars and worlds goes from void to void, infinitesimal, aching with its unrelated significance.
~ Saul Bellow
I am no earthling. I drink moonshine on Mars and mistake meteors for stars 'cause I can't hold my liquor. But I can hold my breath and ascend like wind to the black hole and play galaxophones on the fire escape of your soul.
~ Saul Williams
The rest of the universe is like the coin. The events of the past appear to cause the present, but every time we pop back into existence we are subject to a new set of probabilities. Literally anything can happen.
~ Scott Adams
We can't travel beyond the edge of the universe without exceeding the speed of light, which is theoretically impossible. That's what you would expect in a simulation. You would have some sort of rule of physics to keep the simulated people from traveling beyond the edges. Here I'm assuming the universe is expanding at the same rate as the light that is traveling in all directions, so we can never catch up to it.
~ Scott Adams
The human butt is the single funniest thing in the known universe. This is undisputed.
~ Scott Dikkers
I have tasted the heat of stars, and all of them are sweet.
~ Scott Orson Card
The universe is math on fire.
~ Scott Westerfeld