4,942 Quotes About Stars

Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

Praise to be the stars that implode. A new freedom opens up within them: annulled from space, exonerated from time, existing at last, for themselves alone and no longer in relation to all the rest, perhaps only they can be sure they really exist.

...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars

The stars up there at night are closer than you think.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

All the stars are eyes here, always seeking.