Astronomy Quote by Anonymous

The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge…

— Alice Hoffman

“Then a momentary curtain of cotton-wadding clouds-through it- and the sun was shining in a blue sky. Seconds, minutes, miles—and the blue was quickly…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light.

— James Whitcomb Riley

“In the deep sky where there had been a sun, we saw a ring of white silver; a smoking ring, and all the smokes…

— Elizabeth Enright

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

“To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement…

— Frank Herbert

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

— Pierre Corneille

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

— Dan Brown

“Twilight was reaching its climax, no doubt: the last fires of the sun, like a violent dermatitis, ruched and ravined the horizon, giving it…

— Eric Laurrent

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more…

— George Eliot

Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

— William Golding

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared.…

— Madeleine L'Engle