Astronomy Quote by E. M. Forster

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

— Andre Breton

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

— Maud Hart Lovelace

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from…

— Charles Dickens

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

— Colum McCann

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

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

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.

— Ishmael Beah

“At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most unconstrained fancies were in fact dwarfed by…

— Carl Sagan

The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away.…

— Anonymous

The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial…

— Edward Robert Harrison

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

— Jandy Nelson

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

— Dan Brown