There is nothing better than a sitting outside on a clear night and gazing at a sky full of bright, twinkling stars. It’s the perfect time to ponder the universe and reflect on your place within it.
Here we’ve pulled together the most beautiful, romantic, and meditative quotes about stars, and the mysteries of the night sky.
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“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh
“The stars are the land-marks of the universe. - Sir John Frederick William Herschel
“Stars are the daisies that be-gem
The blue fields of the sky. - D.M. Moir
“Not just beautiful, though–the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. - Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. - Sarah Williams
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I bet they’d live a lot different. - Bill Watterson
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. - Marcus Aurelius
“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars. - Unknown
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true. - Pablo Neruda
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. - Rumi
“How is it that the sky feeds the stars? - Lucretius
“Stars lie hidden in your soul. - Pamela Vaull Starr
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea. - Nicholas Sparks
“I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them. - Alfred de Musset
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“The stars are the street lights of eternity. - Unknown
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems… But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them… - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Come quickly, I am tasting stars! - Dom Perignon
“You must carry a chaos inside you to give birth to a dancing star. - Nietzsche
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations. - John Green
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they? - Virginia Woolf
“There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. - Frances Clark
“Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby. - Mary Chapin Carpenter
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare
“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. - Serbian Proverb
“And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells … - Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Look to the stars, let hope burn in your eyes. - Muse
“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
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke
“If you be my star, I’ll be your sky. - Unknown
“It is when the streets are full of starlight that I feel most alive. - Unknown
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Hellen Keller
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. - Jack Kerouac
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. - H.G. Wells
“We look up at the same stars and see such different things. - Unknown
“When I was young, I fell in love with the stars, and in return, they showed me the light. - Unknown
“Shine like stars in the Universe. - Philippians 2:15
“Last night, I looked up and matched each star with a reason why I love you. I was doing great, until I run out of stars… - Unknown
“If I had a star for every time you brightened up my day, I’d be holding the galaxy. - Unknown
“Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself. - Draya Mooney
“The sparkle in your eyes could make the stars jealous. - Unknown
“Let’s grab a blanket, run away, and watch the stars. - Unknown
“No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
“You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue. - Tom Waits
“The stars shine down and watch us live our little lives and weep for us… - Monet Nodlehs
