Astronomy Quote by James Joyce

“But I will confess 
that I began as an astronomer—a liking
for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things,
a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit—
and…

— Troy Jollimore

“He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling…

— Douglas Adams

He could foretell whats'ever was By consequence to come to pass. As Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations. All this without th'…

— Samuel Butler

“He'd never seen the galaxy like this before, so close, so clear, parallel tracks of stars merging and separating, all of it wheeling as…

— A.W. Baldwin

“My world took his form, became his body, his mouth, his hands, skimming over me, surveying the hills and valleys of all that was…

— Darynda Jones

“The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe…

— Lucretius

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Often he rose early in the morning, before anyone else, and poured himself liquid through the sunrise streets, and everything seemed beautiful, everything in…

— Robert Cormier

“He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles…

— Donna Tartt

“He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.”

— Carla H Krueger

“Men, like planets, have both a visible and an invisible history. The astronomer threads the darkness with strict deduction, accounting so for every visible…

— George Eliot