Astronomy Quote by Joseph Conrad

“You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams…

— Sofia Samatar

“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

“The velvet tapestry of the night curved from horizon to horizon, flecked with thousands of tiny stars. There seemed all the more of them,…

— Mary-Jean Harris

“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

“Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out…

— Dan Brown

“The stars have come to the earth, and the ocean has turned over the ground; dark waves meet the sky.”

— Ally Condie

“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy…

— Olivia Howard Dunbar

“Billions of hard, bright stars shone with relentless glitter across the tropic night sky.”

— James Jones

“Lines of light ran up towering structures, fading into the stars. The world felt vast, as if anything could get lost in it.”

— Cory Michael Sheldon

“This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story across the horizon.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The night was as dark by this time as it would be until morning; and what light we had, seemed to come from the…

— Charles Dickens