Gazing Quote by Anonymous

“It was a lovely night, one of those nights, dear reader, which can only happen when you are young. The sky was so bright…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“For all the tenure of humans on Earth, the night sky had been a companion and an inspiration. The stars were comforting. They seemed…

— Carl Sagan

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening…

— Dean Koontz

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the…

— Amelia Earhart

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within…

— Guy de Maupassant

Oh, Constellations of the early night That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have seen Your rays grow…

— William C. Bryant

When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and…

— Robin Jones Gunn

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.

— Henry Vaughan

To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.

— Edmund Waller

The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked…

— P. J. O'Rourke