Night Sky Quotes

• The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

  Haruki Murakami

  Night, Blue, Sky

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 23, 2014

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• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Stars

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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• There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

  Fritz Leiber

  Night, Sky, Something New

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Good Night, Sight, Sky

  Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

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• If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

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• The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

  Frederic Lawrence Knowles

  Moon, Night, Hands

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• Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Night, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there.

  Jayde Nicole

  I Miss You, Valentines Day, Missing You

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• Surely the stars are images of love.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Images Of Love

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.471

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• It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Night, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.

  Robert W. Service

  Healing, Dark, Night

  Robert William Service, “Weary”

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• To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Dream, Night, Sky

  Teresa Medeiros (2004). “Yours until dawn”

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• The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky.

  John J. Geddes

  Heart, Night, Sky

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• The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Moon Night, Midnight, Noon

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Broadview Press

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• When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

  Rumi

  Night, Sky, Roof

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.

  Patrick Carman

  Stars, Night, Moon

  Patrick Carman (2011). “The Land of Elyon #2: Beyond the Valley of Thorns”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.

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• Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

  Carl Sagan

  Night, Doors, Sky

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

  Robert Breault

  Night, Sky, Metaphor

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• I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Dark, Night

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  We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nature, Important, Atoms

  "The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe, As Told By Neil DeGrasse Tyson", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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• Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.39, Penguin

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• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  Sai Baba

  Life, Stars, Night

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• It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

  Galileo Galilei

  Beautiful, Moon, Sight

  Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler (2016). “The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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