Stars Quotes

The constellation she's named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster--punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon about her own beauty. Perseus, flying by, fell in love with Andromeda and saved her. In the sky, she's pictured with her arms outstretched and her hands chained.

~ Jodi Picoult

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their due so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they Starr to run out of fuel,they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.

~ Jodi Picoult

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.

~ Jodi Picoult

It looked as though [the stars] were breathing to some never-ending slow, deep rhythm. They breathed & watched as the world came & went. ...For them, the earth was one more island world in the immeasurable ocean of outer space, its inhabitants microscopically small

~ Nina George

He went to sleep as soon as they'd gone, waking in the middle of the night and walking outside into a sky whose stars hung so low he felt he strolled among them and he could see indeed, so clear the air, the very flames of their inner workings.

~ Keith Miller

The night embraces me, cool and endless, and above me the stars are tiny holes in the darkness through which the light of eternity is pouring out. I can almost sense primordial stardust flowing through my veins. People are forever telling me that stars make them feel small, and I always nod noncommittally and wonder at the stuffy confinement of their minds. Stars make me feel vast.

~ Olga Grushin

Almost nine years later, I know that stars don’t burn forever, and even the brightest can shatter into a million, burning sparks before falling from the sky.

~ Kristen Kehoe

that's all the stars do, look at lovers – that's why they're so beautiful

~ Ivan Turgenev

I’m evolving, is the thing; I’m a god becoming a constellation.’‘The constellations are mostly demigods,’ I point out. ‘And they didn’t get to be constellations until after they died.’He laughs at that, and says, ‘Death is a small sacrifice to become immortal.

~ Neal Shusterman

Up here it seems we have only the stars, but even they seem small in the midst of that terrifying night sky...I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

~ Leslye Walton

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Star-watching: at night the stars of Alastor Cluster blaze in profusion. The atmosphere refracts their light; the sky quivers with beams, glitters, and errant flashes. The Trills go out into their gardens with jugs of wine; they name the stars and discusses localities. For the Trills, for almost anyone of Alastor, the night sky was no abstract empyrean, but rather a view across prodigious distances to known places: a vast luminous map.

~ Jack Vance

In the dog days, when Altair and Denebset toward western waters, Vegaflaring in their starry wake, the choirof peepers and crickets melds liquidto languid; the first maple leaves ripenand curl to red fists; pine needles spreadgold scripture across the water;nuthatch feet circle tree trunks--gentle scrivenersscribing the dawn of dying days.

~ Ken Craft

Betelgeuse, Achenar. Orion. Aquila. Centre the Cross and you have a steady compass. But there's no compass for my ever disoriented soul, only ever beckoning ghost lights. In the one sure direction, to the one sure end.

~ Keri Hulme

...escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.

~ Brent Weeks

Sometimes, I like to pick the brightest star and wish upon it. Pop always said to wish on falling stars, but I've never seen any.” “Me, neither.” He paused and finally let himself look at her. “What do you wish for?” Her cheeks turned a soft pink and she smiled. “If I told you,” she whispered, “it wouldn't come true.

~ Willowy Whisper

Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.

~ Katherine Rundell

When the stars fall into darkness, I will quietly shine for you.

~ Mika Yamamori

The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star.I don't know if things like that are fair or not.

~ Richard Brautigan

If you ask people where they're from, they will typically say the name of the city where they were born, or perhaps the place on Earth's surface where they spent their formative years. Nothing wrong with that. But an astrochemically richer answer might be, I hail from the explosive jetsam of a multitude of high-mass stars that died more than 5 billion years ago.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

~ Clifford A. Pickover

The sky is falling. The sky is falling.And I fear you won’t believe it until you’re covered in stars

~ Emalynne Wilder

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __

~ Mary Stolz

And if I consume another mortal’s flesh, will I like god before me, shit a million stars upon the naked, wretched sky?

~ A.p. Sweet

The starry night sky echoed across my thoughts, the expanse of my own void filtered in its quiet solitude.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

at night i loved her at night i waited under the tarp at night i watched her looking up at the stars dreaming of a better time to watch me

~ A.p. Sweet

If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of the sky.

~ Anthony Doerr

From this day forward, you will be my sun at dawn and my stars at night, and I vow to love and cherish you for all our days.

~ Marissa Meyer

There were never enough stars in the sky to count how many times a day he fell in love with her.

~ Jewel E. Ann

The stars in the sky are immeasurable.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It doesnot matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us ofa night that mankind had never heard of, it being outside the sphereof its activities and of no earthly importance to anybody but to theastronomers who are paid to talk learnedly about its composition,weight, path--the irregularities of its conduct, the aberrations of itslight--a sort of scientific scandal-mongering.

~ Joseph Conrad

With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin.Don't let me go crazy.The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.

~ Helen Humphreys

I’m still thanking all the stars, one by one.

~ Marissa Meyer

You are both stars, don’t forget.When the stars exploded billions ofyears ago, they formed everythingthat is this world. The moon, thetrees, everything we know isstardust. So don’t forget. Youare stardust.- ROSE PEDDLER

~ Richard Linklater

Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night.

~ Sara Raasch

We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.

~ Carl Sagan

Oh sky...I won't ask so much as to become the sun or the moon, just one of the stars in between...

~ Lucia Jang

A billion stars above us coat the sky white. It would have been beautiful back home, but not here. Here it is the ever present reminder that we are all alone and insignificant.

~ Jennifer Arnett

In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky.

~ Gregory David Roberts