"If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse."
Read quote
3 likes
Stars quotes
Stars
7.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Stars
Browse quotes that often appear alongside stars — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Stars quotes (page 104 of 365)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded."
Read quote
3 likes
"Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars."
Read quote
3 likes
"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset."
Read quote
3 likes
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert."
Read quote
3 likes
"Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?"
Read quote
3 likes
"All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars."
Read quote
3 likes
"La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity."
Read quote
3 likes
"I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I."
Read quote
3 likes
"Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth."
Read quote
3 likes
"The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences."
Read quote
3 likes
"Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man."
Read quote
3 likes
"As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander."
Read quote
3 likes
"The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor."
Read quote
3 likes
"It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content."
Read quote
3 likes
"Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian."
Read quote
3 likes
"We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows."
Read quote
3 likes
"As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind."
Read quote
3 likes