Starry Quotes

120 quotes by 90 authors

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;… — Vincent Van Gogh
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens… — 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… — Lord Byron
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs… — Victor Hugo
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens… — Immanuel Kant
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… — Georges Bataille
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an… — Allen Ginsberg
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that… — Derek Walcott
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more… — Henry David Thoreau
lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky. — Hermann Hesse
O starry night, This is how I want to die — Anne Sexton
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved… — Jack Kerouac
But, enough of that for now. Letâ€™s get lost again in the starry night. — William P. Young
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Natureâ€™s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate. — Aimee Friedman
The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It… — Che Guevara
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings. — Gunter Grass

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90 authors contributed a total of 120 Starry Quotes, led by these top contributors: