102 Star Quotes

In the vast expanse of the night sky, stars have long inspired poets, dreamers, and philosophers alike with their shimmering beauty and infinite mystery. Whether they symbolize hope, destiny, or the incomprehensible scale of the universe, stars hold a special place in our hearts and minds. In this carefully curated collection, we've gathered the top 102 star quotes that will ignite your imagination and elevate your appreciation for these celestial wonders. Get ready to embark on a cosmic journey as we explore the profound wisdom and timeless allure encapsulated in these luminous words.

1. “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” - Marcus Aurelius

3. “For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.” - Heinz R. Pagels

5. “Love is only one fine star away.” - Stevie Nicks

6. “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.” - Haruki Murakami

8. “I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.” - Natsuki Takaya

9. “Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” - Immanuel Kant

10. “They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.” - André Breton

11. “When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.” - Fernand Dumont

12. “I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend...” - Neil Gaiman

13. “There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is a dead planet, as they themselves are dead, so that the living Earth will never be visited by that forlorn ray of light, without a living source, without a living destination. Often on fine nights when the park of this establishment is vacant, I amuse myself with this marvelous instrument (telescope). I go upstairs, walk across the grass, sit on a bench in the Avenue of Oaks – and there, in my solitude, I enjoy the pleasure of weighing the rays of dead stars.” - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

14. “If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.” - Anne Michaels

15. “What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!” - Gustave Flaubert

16. “For you, a comet, under a blue sky, leaves trail of color,For you, a star, dreams of being able to kiss you, dream to hear your voiceFor you, full moon, keep vigil for you, my girl, keep vigil for you, my love.” - Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

17. “Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.” - Jeannette Walls

18. “There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is massive, but there are so many of them. How could anyone care about one star when there were so many spare? And what if stars were small? What if all the stars were just pixels? And earth was less than a pixel? What does that make us? And what does that make me? Not even dust. I felt tiny. For the first time in my life I felt too small.” - Frank Cottrell Boyce

19. “On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.” - Banana Yoshimoto

20. “Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.” - Victor Hugo

21. “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” - Carl Sagan

22. “There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. ” - Hubert Selby Jr.

23. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

24. “its like you said? i lead my people-"forth!" zifnab carried on enthusiastically! " out of eygpt! out of bondage! across the desert! pillar of fire-"desert?" lenthan looked anxious again. "fire? i thought we were going to the stars!"sorry. wrong script" zifnab said” - Margaret Weis

25. “And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.” - Beth Revis

26. “It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and the vicious mygale spiders and beaded lizards with mouths black as a chowdog's, deadly to man, and the little desert basilisks that jet blood from their eyes and the small sandvipers like seemly gods, silent and the same, in Jeda, in Babylon. A constellation of ignited eyes that edged the ring of light all bound in a precarious truce before this torch whose brightness had set back the stars in their sockets.” - Cormac McCarthy

27. “Underground, the stars are legend.” - Catherine Fisher

28. “Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.” - Dean Koontz

29. “I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze it.” - Nichita Stanescu

30. “The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought” - Ernest Hemingway

31. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” - E.E. Cummings

32. “I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique” - Catherine Fisher

33. “The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.” - Alfred North Whitehead

34. “Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.” - Santosh Kalwar

35. “Make a wish," said Indigo.Rose made a wish and then asked, "Why?""That's what I always do. Wish on the moving ones.""Does it matter how fast they move?""I don't think so.""Can you wish on airplanes, too?""Oh, yes.” - Hilary McKay

36. “Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bitterly cold, and Hywel's every breath trailed after him in pale puffs of smoke. The glazed snow crackled underfoot as he started towards the great hall.” - Sharon Kay Penman

37. “Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.” - Isaac Asimov

38. “There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.” - Frances Clark

39. “He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

40. “The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.” - Lord Byron George Gordon

41. “Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.” - Carl Sagan

42. “she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.” - Ann Brashares

43. “Maybe one day the smears of paint Harley left throughout Godspeed will fade, and maybe the stars never will, but i'd rather have Harley's colors.” - Beth Revis

44. “Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from out their several boxes, takeThy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and makeThyself a constellation of them all;And by their blazing signifyThat a great princess falls, but doth not die.Be thou a new star, that to us portendsEnds of much wonder; and be thou those ends.” - John Donne

45. “In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.” - Olaf Stapledon

46. “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.” - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

47. “The flames of the luau bonfire burned brightly. Sparks flew into the sky and disappeared before they reached the stars above. Near the horizon, the moon was large and round and flawless as porcelain.” - Victoria Kahler

48. “There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky is sensed, is seen, although in such settings the sky itself is invariably immense. There is a place between the cerebrum and the stars where sky stops and space commences, and should we find ourselves on a particular prairie or mountaintop at a particular hour, our relationship with sky thins and loosens while our connection to space becomes solid as bone.” - Tom Robbins

49. “there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars” - John Green

50. “… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy” - Philip Levine

51. “Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck.” - David Wong

52. “We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...” - Cordwainer Smith

53. “See the stars, Lily?"She sighed, surrendering. "Of course.""Do you think they can see the sun coming up?""I don't know. Probably?""Do you think they're scared?""They're burning balls of gas, Calder.""Oh, c'mon. Where's the poet in you?"She exhaled, and I sensed her smile. "I see. Well, in that case, yes. They've finally come home. They are triumphant in their midnight kingdom. But the enemy approaches. They have the numbers on their side, but the enemy is bigger, stronger, with a history of winning that goes back to the dawn of time. They're definitvely terrified."I nodded. She understood my analogy."But they don't run, Calder.” - Anne Greenwood Brown

54. “I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of stars.” - Neil Gaiman

55. “To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age” - Sir Isaac Newton

56. “I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.” - Solange nicole

57. “....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...” - John Geddes

58. “Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep that not even light could touch it.And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling.Like stars...” - Fuyumi Ono

59. “Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"…Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see…love like starlight never dies…” - Debi Gliori

60. “I will never, never be the same.I have seen stars.Real stars.” - Beth Revis

61. “The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and now there's no escape” - Amanda Howells

62. “Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.” - Clifford D. Simak

63. “Yo me pregunto si las estrellas están encendidas para que cada cual pueda un día encontrar la suya.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

64. “Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.” - Grigoris Deoudis

65. “I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.” - Orafoura

66. “I was a person full of wishes but without a star.” - Shannon A Thompson

67. “And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.” - Danny Wallace

68. “No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

69. “It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.” - Bono

70. “You know what the best part of the stars is?""What's that?""They're the same no matter what sky you're standing under. I mean...yeah, they might move or look like they're in a different place, but they're the same stars.""Yeah? So?""So even if you're apart from someone you want to be with, you can look up at the stars and know they're looking at the same ones.” - Megan Hart

71. “The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike” - Christopher Marlowe

72. “The steeper the climb, the more incentive to reach the top.Even in the midst of the darkness, there is always a shard of light if we will but search for it hard enough and believe in it strongly enough.A name portrays the nature of its wearer. The meaning of a name, however, portrays the trueness of its wearer in depths that very few ever come to comprehend.May God bless you and keep you and give you peace in all that you do, and may we rest assured of this: that though we travel far apart and in many different directions and for long periods of time, we will meet again, if not in this lifetime, then in eternity, and there we will never have to say ‘good-bye’ again.Courage is not found in lacking fear, courage is found in not allowing your fear to rule you.Courage is really just facing fear.Do not put too much stock in the stars my boy, they are fickle and distant and do not affect the lives of men by very great a margin.” - Jenelle Leanne Schmidt

73. “...your soul can never be long going to the fixed stars, where I intend to settle; or else you may find me in the milky way.” - Michael Kelahan

74. “Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic

75. “A star needs a star.” - Dejan Stojanovic

76. “I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.” - Charles Bukowski

77. “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?” - Neil Gaiman

78. “You are the one star I wish upon nightly, praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

79. “Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.” - Bryan Lee O'Malley

80. “There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.” - G.K. Chesterton

81. “Cold comradeship do stars provide.They light the closer, inner sideOf night's vast weight, which, chill and clear,Pulls on us like some puppeteer.Its unseen threads to heads and heartsAttached, it acts us through our parts,From birth's first cry to bent old age,Upon our distant, tiny stage.” - McKenzie Bodkin

82. “...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...” - John Geddes

83. “...I can’t grasp the stars, but I love them – in the same way, I love you...” - John Geddes

84. “I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.” - Patrick Carman

85. “I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.” - Lana Del Rey

86. “...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...” - John Geddes

87. “How will the ships navigatewithout stars? And then he remembered that the stars weredead, long dead, and the light they shed was not to be trusted,was false, if not an outright lie, and in any case was inadequate,unequal to its task, which was to illuminate the evil that men did.” - Jeet Thayil

88. “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.” - Carl Sagan

89. “One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was in the world, whether we were together or apart, that I should remember her with that star because it would always be there-that it was her with me.” - Rebecah McManus

90. “Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.” - Jodi Picoult

91. “The sun, moon, and stars God gave to the world, but He embedded their glories in your countenance just for me. Woven in your hair are the sun's shimmering golden rays. From your face glows the pale luminescence of the moon. And in your eyes God sprinkled a million stars to twinkle against a backdrop of endless night. You are my celestial light.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

92. “You deserve a life.” - John Green

93. “The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.” - Elie Wiesel

94. “Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?” - Anthony Liccione

95. “Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

96. “They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

97. “Each of us is the real star. We all are so close but still so far i this sky called ground. We all shine, though the light the others see is the one that our actions left in the past.” - Christos K

98. “When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone.” - Anusha Atukorala

99. “She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.” - Kristin Cashore

100. “The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.” - Will Self

101. “I cannot squeeze the stars; but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed.” - Munia Khan

102. “We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.” - Jim Krueger