Astronomy Quote by George Sterling

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony…

— George Sterling

“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the shadows that…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Now you feel how nothing clings to you; your vast shell reaches into endless space, and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward them with…

— Malcolm Lowry

Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for…

— Anonymous

Eternity.—Thy name Or glad, or fearful, we pronounce, as thoughts Wandering in darkness shape thee. Thou strange being, Which art and must be, yet…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely…

— Douglas Adams

“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing…

— Marcus Aurelius

O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous…

— Robert Browning

“Tell me tales of inconceivable fear and unimaginable love, in orbs whereto our sun is a nameless star, or unto which its rays have…

— Clark Ashton Smith

“And that's when he saw, at last, why it was so sweet to be infinitesimal: because as we become nothing, beneath the stars, so…

— Anthony McCarten

What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow,…

— Thomas Pynchon