Astronomy Quote by Joe R. Lansdale

“As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.”

— Daniel J. Rice

“But what after all is one night? A short space, especially when the darkness dims so soon, and so soon a bird sings, a…

— Virginia Woolf

“A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull…

— Alaina Stanford

“And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot to be…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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

“Farther from the sun, a father and son. The soft moon chasing after, the sun running away; a lunacy of circles that separates the…

— Anthony Liccione

“Now the flesh arranges itself differently. I'm a cloud, congealed around a center object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more…

— Margaret Atwood

“By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed…

— T.E. Lawrence

“All night the earth and the heavens followed their usual arrangements. Stars passed: an immense tide hung over them. A silent sea raced back…

— Mary Butts

“Every trace of the passionate plumage of the cloudy sunset had been swept away, and a naked moon stood in a naked sky. The…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with…

— David Foster Wallace

“In the sky was a sliver of moon. What kind of moon? A moon like a clipped fingernail, like a smudge of powdered sugar,…

— Jeet Thayil