Astronomy Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“Etymologically, a disaster is a bad star.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“It is the lumps and trials That tell us whether we shall be known And whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.”

— John Ashbery

“Being a star is depressing. It twinkles but is distant and cold. I'd rather be the moon, Shine in your glory and go around…

— Avinash Matta

“...perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“That Astronomical Annoyance, the Star Shell, Which Momentarily Enables You to Scrutinize the Kind of Mud You Are In.”

— Bruce Bairnsfather

“To be a star is good; to stay in the sky is bad.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Maybe we're all the children of a star, Misguided in direction, our misdirection”

— Mudvayne

“The bigger the star, the quicker it dies.”

— Lindy Zart

“Studying the stars makes you come to grips with your insignificance pretty quickly.”

— Diane Chamberlain

“use it to prove how the stars were always what we knew they were: the exit wounds of every misfired word”

— Ocean Vuong

“And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it) Your life, fearful and immense and blossoming, so that, sometimes frustrated, and sometimes understanding, Your…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Just as a star can’t be seen behind a cloud, you can never shine and be seen behind the clouding of your insecurities.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA