Astronomy Quote by Paul McAuley

The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“But high-mass stars fortuitously explode, scattering their chemically enriched guts throughout the galaxy. After nine billion years of such enrichment, in an undistinguished part…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.

— Philip James Bailey

“Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins in night to their destinies in dust and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“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

“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler".”

— John Milton

“The stars burned with a lidless fixity and they drew nearer in the night until toward dawn he was stumbling among the whinstones of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“A colossal amorphous murmuration of starlings surged and darted across the darkening topaz sky.”

— Dave Hutchinson

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.

— Homer

“The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy luminosity, millions…

— Sherry Thomas

“the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in…

— Herman Melville

The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

— Roger Zelazny