Constellations Quotes

• Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

  Pharrell Williams

  Stars, Waiting, Want

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• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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• Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Peace, Stars

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• The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Stars, Reading, Sky

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.165, Univ of California Press

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• Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

  John Berger

  Stars, Night, Sky

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid.

  Lauren Aquilina

  Unsaid, Left, Universe

  Song: Talk To Me, 2013

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• My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Stars, I Hate You, Green

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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• Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

  Lauren Miller

  Fairy Tale, Fairy, Tales

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• I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

  Amy Tan

  Love, Stars, Fall

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.

  Andrea Gibson

  Home, Writing, Heart

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• The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.

  Chet Raymo

  Book, Dark, Night

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• We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sky, Different, Looks

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• We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

  Jack Gilbert

  Stars, Lovely, Unlearn

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.15, Knopf

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• Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Individuality, Identity, Assemblage

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• Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

  Thornton Wilder

  Night, Sky, Singing

  Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

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• If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

  Carl Sagan

  Century, Biking, Tandem Bikes

  "Cosmos".

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• Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Eye, Light

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.221, Macmillan

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• Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Stars, Greatness, Light

  Mary Baker Eddy (2000). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Stars, Home, Sleep

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, People, Forever

  Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

  Elias Canetti

  Stars, Made

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• Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Giving, Refuse

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.76, eKitap Projesi

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• Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Onward And Upward, Childhood

  Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson (2014). “The Society of the Crossed Keys”, p.20, Pushkin Press

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• A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

  Elias Canetti

  Stars

  "AWP 2014 Journals". logger.believermag.com. August 4, 2014.

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• The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

  Walt Whitman

  Earth, Want, Wells

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 8

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