Quotes About Constellation

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for someone to unfasten them. someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores

Who knows what constellation rises there, shaped like a question mark? The Question Mark, perhaps. Coming at the end of an ever-expanding cosmic doubt begun at the first keystroke of Time. If only there were another constellation: The Answer.

In that moment, he felt like the illusion that his family had become was held together only by the constellation of patterns left by the furniture feet set on a rug, by the runes formed in the shadows that the chair backs threw on the walls, and that once those things were moved or faded, he wouldn't know who he was anymore.

I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and also—I am so gratified to report—they sometimes check in with one another. Correspondences have sprung up and friendships have started to form beyond my influence. Family has begun to take on a transitive property as well.

But she was beautiful, with hair and eyes so dark and long. He imagined she was a reservation eclipse. Full. He needed special glasses to look at her; he could barely survive her reflection. "You're a constellation," he said.

Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.

But the Black male consciousness must be raised to the realization that sexism and woman-hating are critically dysfunctional to his liberation as a Black man because they arise out of the same constellation that engenders racism and homophobia.

The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.

She felt a heady kinesthetic rush of acceleration as a constellation of fusions drew her to a tight nexus.

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?

The other dreams inside a constellation

He was beautiful and still is, we just couldn't flow within the same constellation.

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

Nightly, certain stars seem to bring me into closer and more constant touch with the mysterious laws of the universe. These stars, too, are the most unfailing of our season-marks, sky-flower, faithful through a thousand years. Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

But time past is a time forgotten. We expect the rise of a new constellation.

Se trasladan como una moviente constelación de una parte a otra, mientras yo quisiera verlos quietos, verlos a mis pies y quietos -un poco el sueño de todo dios, Andrée, el sueño nunca cumplido de los dioses-

Un tráfico secreto ordena este desorden, ten confianza y espera. Verás, oirás, perfumarás tu cara con las presencias que derrama esta constelación de sangre.

The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.

I like to consider myself a star - a star, that when you look in the sky, it's always there. And on a clear night... a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.

It never happens that a new constellation suddenly rises out of the east. There is an order, a predictability, a permanence about the stars. In a way, they are almost comforting.

But that is really the story of Dike. It was told of her{276} that she had already withdrawn into the mountains when mankind ceased to heed dike—which in our language means not only just retribution, but also justice generally. When still worse things thereupon followed, Dike forsook the earth, and can be seen in the sky as the constellation Virgo.

A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.