Starry Night Quotes

• Starry Starry night
  Paint your palette blue and gray
  Look out on a summer's day
  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
  Shadows on the hills
  Sketch the trees and the daffodils
  Catch the breeze and the winter chills
  In colors on the snowy linen land.

  Don McLean

  Summer, Song, Eye

  Song: Vincent

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• And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

  Don McLean

  Beautiful, Suicidal, Night

  Song: Vincent

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• Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

  Don McLean

  Flower, Eye, Night

  Song: Vincent

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• O starry night, This is how I want to die

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Want, Dies

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Infinity, Enchanted

  Vincent Van Gogh (2003). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.380, Penguin UK

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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

  William P. Young

  Night, Enough, Lost

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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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• This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

  Don McLean

  Romantic, Beautiful, Survival

  Song: Vincent

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• Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought - and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees.

  Rajneesh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Essentials, Obvious, Vague

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• Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Atheist, Math

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• I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Night, Thinking, Dancing

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• There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

  Van Morrison

  Angel, Night, Over You

  Song: A New Kind of Man, Album: A Sense of Wonder

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• It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

  Henning Mankell

  Writing, Night, Sky

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 23, 2016

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Music, Drawing, Mind

  Letter to Theo from The Hague, July 21, 1882.

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Depth, Misery, Harmony

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, People, Want

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• Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Night, Giving

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• In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Art, Night, Symphony

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• Look,
  Here are we
  On this starry night staring into space.
  And I must say
  I feel as small as dust
  Lying down here.
  What point could there be troubling?
  Head down wondering what will
  Become of me,
  Why concern we cannot see
  But no reason to abandon it.
  Time is short but that's all right,
  Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night.
  Take your hands from your eyes, my love,
  Everything must end some time,
  Don't burn the day away.

  Dave Matthews

  Time, Lying, Eye

  "Song: 'Pig'". 1998.

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• The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
  Oh starry starry night! This is how
  I want to die.

  Anne Sexton

  Stars, Night, Want

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Dream, Teacher, Passion

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• And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.

  May Sarton

  Song, Stars, Grief

  "The Phoenix Again" l. 17 (1988)

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