117 Star Gazing Quotes

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Famous Star Gazing Quotes

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. — Bill Watterson

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection. — Carl Jung

When its dark enough you can see the stars. — Charles A. Beard

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. — Maria Mitchell

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? — Jeb Bush

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher. — Tycho Brahe

The evening star Is the most beautiful of all stars — Sappho

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. — Edmond Halley

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. — Plato

I can see the stars again m'lady. - Rick Riordan

I can see the stars again m'lady. — Rick Riordan

Surely the stars are images of love. — Philip James Bailey

If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for — Drake

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short Star Gazing Quotes

  • I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream. — Vincent Van Gogh
  • You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights. — Onew
  • Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other. — Kobayashi Issa
  • Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place. — Seneca
  • The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. — Hildegard of Bingen
  • The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. — Henry David Thoreau
  • Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. — Marcus Aurelius

Star Gazing Image Quotes

Star gazing quote You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Stargazing Quotes

Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within. — Jack Gleeson

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. — H. M. Tomlinson

Star gazing quote If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the st
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts. — Max Lucado

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids. — Tim Ferriss

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Star gazing quote When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars.
When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars.

Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon. — J. K. Rowling

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there. — Tim Ferriss

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing. — Dolly Parton

Starry Sky Quotes

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’ — Louie Giglio

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant

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

Star gazing quote I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the star
I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.

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

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

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world. — Georges Bataille

Star gazing quote Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.

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

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

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

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

Gazing Quotes

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. - Alphonse De Lamartine

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. — Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Star gazing quote I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. — Sue Monk Kidd

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Star gazing quote Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature. — Ibn Arabi

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin. — Max Lucado

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen

I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home. — Gene Cernan

Night Sky Quotes

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. — Jim Bishop

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are. — Peter Cook

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. - Llewelyn Powys

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. — Llewelyn Powys

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

Under the mountains is silver and gold. But under the night sky, hunger and cold. —

Star gazing quote When it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars.
When it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. — Yasunari Kawabata

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars. — Khushwant Singh

One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. — Michio Kaku

A song was heard at Christmas To wake the midnight sky: A saviour's birth, and peace on earth, And praise to God on high. The angels sang at Christmas With all the hosts above, And still we sing the newborn King His glory and his love. — Timothy Dudley-Smith

Stars In The Night Sky Quotes

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

I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home. — Buddy Wakefield

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose. — Paul Bowles

Star gazing quote Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

I could kiss you in the rain forever Turn all your pain to pleasure Fill up all your days with sunlight Make the passion last every night Give you my every possesion Make you my only obsession Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above But I could never love you enough — Chely Wright

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. — Ramakrishna

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

Star gazing quote The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. — Natalie Wood

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. — Frederic Lawrence Knowles

Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted. — Sayings

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. — Willa Cather

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More Star Gazing Quotes

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything. — Haruki Murakami

Star gazing quote Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no
Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. — Edgar Mitchell

This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful. — Hermann Oberth

The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe. — Sergei Korolev

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen. — M. C. Escher

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen. — John N. Bahcall

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. — Yuri Gagarin

this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars. — Walt Whitman

We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go. — Eileen Collins

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization. — Gene Cernan

The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends. — Wernher Von Braun

The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well. — Ilan Ramon

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence. — Gene Cernan

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species. — Buzz Aldrin

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars. — Quintus Ennius

That was a real fireball. — John Glenn

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

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

Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars. — George Steiner

Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble

We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth. — Sara Seager

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. — George Santayana

We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. — Gene Roddenberry

Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of planets, we may have an idea of the numberless globes that serve for the habitaton of living creatures. — William Herschel

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time. — Eileen Collins

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations. — Eddie Rickenbacker

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind. — Lyndon B. Johnson

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet. — Rachael Ray

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable. — Scott Carpenter

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain. — Ihab Hassan

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question. — Neil Gaiman

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life. — Edward Higgins White

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class. — Neil Armstrong

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth. — Gordon Cooper

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