55 Inspirational Sky Quotes

Gazing at the sky often fills us with a sense of wonder and inspiration. From the pale hues of dawn to the fiery sunsets and the infinite expanse of stars at night, the sky serves as a canvas for both our dreams and reflections on life. This ever-changing tapestry above us has long inspired poets, painters, and thinkers, each attempting to capture its beauty and its role in sparking human imagination. In this collection, we’ve gathered 55 of the most inspirational quotes about the sky, offering you a portal to new heights of creativity and contemplation. Whether you're in need of motivation, solace, or a fresh perspective, these quotes are here to lift your spirits and inspire your journey.

1. “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” - Terry Pratchett

2. “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

3. “I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can.” - Laura Pritchett

4. “I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.” - Shannon Hale

5. “Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)” - Horace

6. “From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren’t really people anymore. Their little lives meant absolutely nothing from this altitude.” - P.S. Baber

7. “The sky is an enormous man.” - Emanuel Swedenborg

8. “Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel. ” - Lois Lowry

9. “I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.” - John Marsden

10. “The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.” - Roberto Bolaño

11. “We are angrier with the sky than with our actions.” - Sorin Cerin

12. “I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky” - Scott Fortino

13. “I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.” - Santosh Kalwar

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

15. “That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.” - Jandy Nelson

16. “Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.” - Mia Kirshner

17. “I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.” - Joss Stirling

18. “You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” - Pema Chodron

19. “So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.” - Virginia Woolf

20. “For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.” - Steve Rasnic Tem

21. “There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” - Victor Hugo

22. “The sky is not my limit...I am.” - T.F. Hodge

23. “You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.” - Joss Stirling

24. “What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths covered the stars. Through all the rush of the cloud river the moon swam, breasting the waves and disappearing again in the darkness.I walked up and down, drinking in the beauty of the quiet earth and the changing sky. The night was absolutely silent. Nothing seemed to be abroad. There was no scurrying of rabbits, or twitter of the half-asleep birds. And though the clouds went sailing across the sky, the wind that drove them never came low enough to rustle the dead leaves in the woodland paths. Across the meadows I could see the church tower standing out black and grey against the sky. ("Man Size In Marble")” - E. Nesbit

25. “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

26. “Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating.” - Lisa Ann Sandell

27. “On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.For unmeasurable periods, I seem divorced from my body, as though I were an awareness spreading out through space, over the earth and into the heavens, unhampered by time or substance, free from the gravitation that binds to heavy human problems of the world. My body requires no attention. It's not hungry. It's neither warm or cold. It's resigned to being left undisturbed. Why have I troubled to bring it here? I might better have left it back at Long Island or St. Louis, while the weightless element that has lived within it flashes through the skies and views the planet. This essential consciousness needs no body for its travels. It needs no plane, no engine, no instruments, only the release from flesh which circumstances I've gone through make possible.Then what am I – the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.” - Charles A. Lindbergh

28. “We look up, if only to see if we're likely to be rained on. The sky calls attention to itself, whether scored by herons, cranes, or wires; illumined by sunsets, Perseids, or ballparks; broken up by the twigwork of oaks or maples, painted in rainbows, or just primed in the pale gray of my '52 Ford. If we are truthful, the sky is never neutral.” - Robert Michael Pyle

29. “If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.” - Ilona Andrews

30. “Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he'll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.” - Colleen Hoover

31. “I'm not a sucker for happily ever afters, but if these two characters don't get theirs I might climb inside this e-reader and lock them both inside that damn garage forever.” - Colleen Hoover

32. “My body is a damn traitor.” - Colleen Hoover

33. “My eyes trail from his hand to the tattoo written in small script across his forearm. Hopeless” - Colleen Hoover

34. “I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.” - Colleen Hoover

35. “You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely.” - Colleen Hoover

36. “It's amazing what the sound of a voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart. He spoke five words just now, but in the time it took him to speak those five words, my heart was shredded and minced, then placed back inside my chest with the expectation that it should somehow know how to beat again.” - Colleen Hoover

37. “...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...” - David Wroblewski

38. “I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like thesternness and stillness of the world under this frost.” - Charlotte Brontë

39. “Pale sky, white land; like somewhere past the end of the world” - Rinsai Rossetti

40. “My locker seems to have become the hub for sticky notes and nasty letters, none of which I ever see actually being placed on or in my locker. I really don’t get what people gain out of doing things like this if they don’t even own up to it.Like the note that was stuck to my locker this morning. All it said was, “Whore.”Really? Where’s the creativity in that? They couldn’t back it up with an interesting story? Maybe a few details of my indiscretion? If I have to read this shit every day, the least they could do is make it interesting. If I was going to stoop so low as to leave an unfounded note on someone’s locker,I’d at least have the courtesy of entertaining whoever reads it in the process. I’d write something interesting like, “I saw you in bed with my boyfriend last night. I really don’t appreciate you getting massage oil on my cucumbers. Whore.” I laugh and it feels odd, laughing out loud at my own thoughts. I look around and no one is left in the hallway but me. Rather than rip the sticky notes off of my locker like I probably should, I take out my pen and make them a little more creative. You’re welcome, passersby.” - Colleen Hoover

41. “She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...” - Angela Carter

42. “I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.” - Joss Stirling

43. “Glancing in through the open door to Xav’s room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Sky’s absence at his side.” - Joss Stirling

44. “Oh my gosh, don’t you both look pretty!” We looked like rejects from the auditions for The Sound of Music.“I will have to buy them – they are meant to be yours!” Karla waved her credit card around like a wand.“What a shame they didn’t have one in green for me. But then, it is a young girl’s style. I would’ve looked foolish.” - Joss Stirling

45. “So, Zed, isn’t this a killer outfit?”“Certainly a killer, baby.”“Good, because I’ve bought another five just like it.”“You horrible, teasing fairy. If you really have more of those fashion disasters in your bags, I’m gonna hang you on top of the family Christmas tree in December.” - Joss Stirling

46. “I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative” - jay woodman

47. “Fine, I'll teach you,''Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.” - Joss Stirling

48. “Wisdom you speak, Obi Tina.''None of that - I'm the one who gets to speak backwards - no, we're both wrong - that's the little green guy, Yoda.''You're right. So I just get to pout and act badly when you try and teach me anything.''Try channelling Luke rather than Annakin - the outcome is better.” - Joss Stirling

49. “Get out of here. Yoda so does not have an English accent!''Other than that you're saying I'm a dead ringer?''If the shoe fits.''Sheesh, I hate tall girls.” - Joss Stirling

50. “...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...” - John Geddes

51. “Tonight the sky is the color of my heart, bleeding crimson for my love” - Paige Aufhammer

52. “There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.” - Kathryn Worth

53. “If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.” - Philip C. Plait

54. “He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars.” - Leo Tolstoy

55. “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