Quotes About Distant Stars

#1. We can only know each other the way we know distant stars: by observing years-old light, gathering outdated information, running calculations and making inferences.

Gabriel Roth

#2. For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us.

Avery Brooks

#3. Anxiety is like a telescope that captures light from distant stars that may have already died. Use it at your own risk to observe things that are within easy reach.

Elaine Orabona Foster

#4. This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millennium of nights will be yours to see light as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars as if you were Prometheus an endless illumination by which to understand all things.

Anne Rice

#5. Death looked up angirly, and found himself staring into eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that had no counterpart among the familiar constellations of the realtime universe.

Terry Pratchett

#6. For there was no vessel - at least of Man's making - anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.

Olivier Messiaen

#8. Her nights were lit by distant stars and the shimmer of moonlight on snow, but every dawn she woke to darkness.

George R R Martin

#9. I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.

Diane Ackerman

#10. Our brains are dark globes lit by very distant stars.

David Mitchell

#11. Seekers are all following some distant star, and eventually will come to recognize that this star resides in their very core.

T. Thorn Coyle

#12. Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are - how impossible to reach.

Ally Condie

#13. Still abiding under the same vault of stars that were, to her, filled with wonder and mystery; but that were, to him, nothing more than distant balls of fire and cataclysm

Dean Koontz

#14. The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

Roger Zelazny

#15. You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars.

Leila Rasheed

#18. The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. The last thin paring of the old moon hung over the distant mountains to the west. Venus had moved away. With dark a gauzy swarm of stars. He could not guess what they were for so many.

Cormac McCarthy

#20. 'Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.

Gregory Benford

#21. In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.

John B. Tabb

#22. Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them.

Albert Claude

#23. I was still blind , but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.

Novalis

#24. No great stars above her. Only a blackness that hurt to look at. Had the distant suns abandoned their birthplace? Earth was dying and the stars were gone like adulterous celestial lovers seeking a new terrestrial mate. She did not blame them. We were never worth shining for, she thought.

C.J. Anderson

#25. We're stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we're all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.

Dannika Dark

#26. Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Kobo Abe

#27. The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

Charles Dickens

#28. It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars ... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

Richard H. Baker

#29. In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

Nikola Tesla

#31. A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

Carl Sagan

#32. Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

Clifford D. Simak

#33. Delenn: The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff.

J. Michael Straczynski

#34. If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.

Rolf Jacobsen

#35. At night, without the distant hint of sunlight, the room felt colder and more hollow. Clay stretched up and sniffed at the darkness that had fallen on the other side of the hole. He thought it smelled like stars.

Tui T. Sutherland

#36. When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

Carl Sagan

#37. The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

Joyce Carol Oates

#38. Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.

Christopher Paolini

#39. Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

Don Williams

#40. They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.

Andre Breton

#41. The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.

Charles Simic

#42. When she was little, she'd liked to pretend that stars were really lights anchoring distant islands, as if she wasn't looking up but only out across a dark sea. She knew the truth now but still found stars comforting, especially in their sameness. A sky full of burning replicas.

Lauren Oliver

#43. If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

Alison Gopnik

#44. Distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.

Virginia Woolf

#45. You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

Arthur Eddington

#46. On a silent moonlit night look at the sky and see yourself dancing with those distant twinkling stars.

Debasish Mridha

#47. my house only felt like a home underwater, in floods; my father was an astronaut because to me stars or the distant flashing of satellites seemed closer than wherever he was; when

Neil Hilborn

#48. Black met black on the distant horizon, the stars alone distinguishing sky from lake. On the sand below, Silver Beach glittered at the water's edge while on the north side of the river the lighthouse's beacon signaled safe harbor.

Erin Farwell

#49. Lilette was like a star - full of light and distant beauty. Han was like the shadows around the stars - he let her shine. ~Jolin

Elana Johnson

#50. Laine taped the last box shut. That was it, then: All of Gavin's belongings put away; some for charity, some for the dump, some to be saved for a happier 'one day' that Laine felt, right now, was as distant as the stars.

Stephen M. Irwin

#51. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

Henry David Thoreau

#52. As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

#53. To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

Yehudi Menuhin

#54. I remember too, a distant bell ... and stars that fell ... like the rainout of the blue.

Johnny Mercer

#55. She had always loved the stars. But in the desert of winter it was impossible to forget that they were cold, and distant, and did not care.

Seth Dickinson

#56. You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

Pablo Neruda

#57. We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.

Adam Riess

#58. I thought to myself: if it's true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

Sadegh Hedayat

#59. Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Margaret Fuller