Starry Sky Quotes

• Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

  Robert Breault

  Revenge, Anger, Sky

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• Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Fear, Philosophical, Science

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• The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Sleep, Sky

  'Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle' (1807)

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• She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Eye, Dark

  "SheWalks in Beauty" l. 1 (1815)

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• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  Otto Weininger

  Appreciation, Stars, Angel

  Otto Weininger, Steven A. M. Burns (2001). “A translation of Weininger's Über die letzten Dinge, 1904-1907, On last things”, Edwin Mellen Pr

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• I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Dog, Flower

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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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• Of old sat Freedom on the heights
  The thunders breaking at her feet:
  Above her shook the starry lights;
  She heard the torrents meet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Freedom, Light, Feet

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Lakes, Sky, Mind

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• The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Sky, Lamps

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• Fly me high through the starry skies or maybe to an astral plane, cross the highways of fantasy, help me to forget today's pain.

  Gary Wright

  Pain, Sky, Today

  Song: Dreamweaver

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• Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

  Franz Kafka

  Sky, Evil

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.44, Vintage

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• Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Disappointment, Grief, Sight

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.34, DOSER Reads

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• Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Lying, Home

  Underwoods "Requiem" (1887). Engraved on Stevenson's tomb in Samoa, with the seventh line reading "home from the sea," which is a frequently quoted variant.

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• If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Father, Eye, Dark

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

  Ira Gershwin

  Nice, Hands, Sky

  "NiceWork If You Can Get It" (song) (1937)

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• Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.

  A. E. Douglass

  Nature, Book, Epic

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• Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

  Cole Porter

  Country, Land, Sky

  Song: Don't Fence Me In

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• At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Night, Blue

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2897, Delphi Classics

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• I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.

  Robert Burns

  Sex, Night, Opposites

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• What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

  Piet Mondrian

  Sky, Doe, Use

  Carel Blotkamp, Piet Mondrian (1994). “Mondrian: the art of destruction”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• SUN, MOON, AND STARRY SKY Early summer evenings, when the first stars come out, the warm glow of sunset still stains the rim of the western sky. Sometimes, the moon is also visible, a pale white slice, while the sun tarries. Just think -- all the celestial lights are present at the same time! These are moments of wonder -- see them and remember.

  Vera Nazarian

  Summer, Stars, Sunset

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• lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Sky, Voice

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky that lies, a river searching for its father, a beautiful blue forest. It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it's very mean, generous, magical, universal, a picture of freedom, of unrestrained desire to live, of pain and joy - a joy so powerful and sweet that it restores the souls in every spot on earth. The story of Pinocchio - nothing more beautiful in the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

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