Starlight Quotes

• Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fall, Clouds, Sunbeams

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.109

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• Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

  Laini Taylor

  Fire, Light, Blood

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• Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies for you see, love like starlight never dies

  Debi Gliori

  Stars, Sky, Long

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• Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

  Stephen Foster

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

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• And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Healing, Bones, Filled

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.48, Penguin

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• Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Angel, Moon Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

  Michael Crichton

  Determination, Men, Ifs

  Michael Crichton (2007). “Next”, HarperCollins UK

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• Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Stars, Men, Views

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Art, Thoughtful

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• I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Circles, Shapes

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

  Laini Taylor

  Dust, Land, Might

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Fear, Thinking

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• Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

  Robert W. Service

  Eye, Goats, May

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• I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

  Jon McGregor

  Laughter, Home, Eye

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wait.  Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight.  I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness.  Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Loneliness, Night

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.15, University of Arizona Press

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• A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Science, Years

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• Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years' worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That's why trees smell so beautiful and old.

  Frances O'Roark Dowell

  Beautiful, Stars, Cutting

  Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “Where I'd Like To Be”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Memories, Flower, Sunshine

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• The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Stars, Land

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Garden, Years, Afternoon

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.105, Broadview Press

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• Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Rain, Simple

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• There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Land, Creeks

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

  Black Elk

  Mother, Children, Father

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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